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The Complete Plato & Socrates Collection: The Republic, Apology, Symposium, Phaedo, Meno, Crito, Gorgias, Timaeus, The Clouds, Memorabilia, Apology by ... Major Dialogue That Shaped Western Thought
What if one man's search for truth could shape the future of civilization?
The Complete Plato & Socrates Collection presents the definitive anthology of the foundational works that defined ethics, politics, logic, love, death, and the human condition for millennia to come. This modern, reader-friendly translation brings together the greatest dialogues and testimonies written by Plato, Xenophon, and Aristophanes-the men who knew Socrates and captured the power of his ideas.
This anthology is a profound journey through the questions that never stop mattering, as relevant today as they were in ancient Athens. Whether you're a student of philosophy or a seeker of wisdom, this collection is your gateway into the mind that launched an intellectual revolution.
What You'll Discover in This Modern
The Republic - Plato's visionary blueprint for justice and the ideal societyApology, Meno, Phaedo, Crito, Gorgias, Timaeus - Socratic dialogues on morality, courage, death, knowledge, and the cosmosSymposium - A timeless meditation on love, beauty, and divine desireThe Clouds by Aristophanes - A comedic yet revealing satire of Socratic thoughtMemorabilia & Apology by Xenophon - Historical accounts of Socrates' everyday teachings and practical virtueEvery Major Dialogue That Shaped Western Thought - Expertly adapted for contemporary readers without losing the depth or nuance of the originals
With clarity, power, and philosophical precision, this collection bridges the gap between ancient wisdom and modern meaning.
These are the dialogues that shaped the moral compass of civilization-and still challenge us to think deeply today.
The Complete Plato & Socrates Collection presents the definitive anthology of the foundational works that defined ethics, politics, logic, love, death, and the human condition for millennia to come. This modern, reader-friendly translation brings together the greatest dialogues and testimonies written by Plato, Xenophon, and Aristophanes-the men who knew Socrates and captured the power of his ideas.
This anthology is a profound journey through the questions that never stop mattering, as relevant today as they were in ancient Athens. Whether you're a student of philosophy or a seeker of wisdom, this collection is your gateway into the mind that launched an intellectual revolution.
What You'll Discover in This Modern
The Republic - Plato's visionary blueprint for justice and the ideal societyApology, Meno, Phaedo, Crito, Gorgias, Timaeus - Socratic dialogues on morality, courage, death, knowledge, and the cosmosSymposium - A timeless meditation on love, beauty, and divine desireThe Clouds by Aristophanes - A comedic yet revealing satire of Socratic thoughtMemorabilia & Apology by Xenophon - Historical accounts of Socrates' everyday teachings and practical virtueEvery Major Dialogue That Shaped Western Thought - Expertly adapted for contemporary readers without losing the depth or nuance of the originals
With clarity, power, and philosophical precision, this collection bridges the gap between ancient wisdom and modern meaning.
These are the dialogues that shaped the moral compass of civilization-and still challenge us to think deeply today.
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Indefatigable search of Greek philosopher Socrates for ethical knowledge challenged conventional mores and led to his trial and execution on charges of impiety and corrupting the youth; although he wrote nothing, the dialogues of Plato, his greatest pupil, capture his method of question and answer.
People consider this inscrutable individual enigma in his lifetime of the handful who forever changed conception of thought. They vigorously dispute most of our second-hand information, but his mythic death at the hands of the democracy nevertheless founded the academic discipline, and he influenced in every age. Because they widely consider his paradigmatic life more generally, the admiration and emulation, normally reserved for Jesus or Buddha, founders of religious sects, strangely encumbered Socrates, who, convicted on irreverence toward the gods, tried so hard to make other persons to think on their own. Many other persons found him so certainly impressive despite his strange appearance, personality, behavior, and views.
People generally refer to the whole contested issue, the so thorny difficulty of distinguishing the historical person from his image in the authors of the texts and moreover scores of later interpreters, as the Socratic problem. Each age, each intellectual turn, produces an image of its own. No less true now that, “The ‘real’ Socrates we have not: what we have is a set of interpretations each of which represents a ‘theoretically possible’ Socrates,” as Cornelia de Vogel put. In fact, model of Gregory Vlastos, a new standard analytic paradigm for interpreting Socrates, held sway until the mid 1990s. Socrates, the figure, really fundamentally dominates any virtually any interpretation.
Indefatigable search of Greek philosopher Socrates for ethical knowledge challenged conventional mores and led to his trial and execution on charges of impiety and corrupting the youth; although he wrote nothing, the dialogues of Plato, his greatest pupil, capture his method of question and answer.
People consider this inscrutable individual enigma in his lifetime of the handful who forever changed conception of thought. They vigorously dispute most of our second-hand information, but his mythic death at the hands of the democracy nevertheless founded the academic discipline, and he influenced in every age. Because they widely consider his paradigmatic life more generally, the admiration and emulation, normally reserved for Jesus or Buddha, founders of religious sects, strangely encumbered Socrates, who, convicted on irreverence toward the gods, tried so hard to make other persons to think on their own. Many other persons found him so certainly impressive despite his strange appearance, personality, behavior, and views.
People generally refer to the whole contested issue, the so thorny difficulty of distinguishing the historical person from his image in the authors of the texts and moreover scores of later interpreters, as the Socratic problem. Each age, each intellectual turn, produces an image of its own. No less true now that, “The ‘real’ Socrates we have not: what we have is a set of interpretations each of which represents a ‘theoretically possible’ Socrates,” as Cornelia de Vogel put. In fact, model of Gregory Vlastos, a new standard analytic paradigm for interpreting Socrates, held sway until the mid 1990s. Socrates, the figure, really fundamentally dominates any virtually any interpretation.
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