Platón: Protágoras, Gorgias, Menón

by Plato, Platón, Óscar Martínez (Editor)

La frescura, viveza y claridad que Platón supo insuflar en sus diálogos han permitido que su pervivencia y rotunda actualidad sigan interesando a los lectores de nuestros días. Su brillante capacidad artística y la fuerza intelectual de su obra se ofrecen en una armónica relación de palabra y pensamiento perfectamente articulada en los treinta y cinco diálogos que dejó escritos. En esta nueva edición, revisada por el profesor Óscar Martínez, se ofrecen tres muestras de la facilidad con la que Platón acuñó la forma literaria más apropiada para la transmisión del conocimiento, desde prismas diversos y sin caer en el dogmatismo de la disertación. En el Protágoras se nos ofrecen los más destacados principios de la moral socrática y la discusión se centra en si la virtud es un saber y, en caso de serlo, si se trata de un saber de lo bueno y bello o es un saber técnico. En el Gorgias se discute acerca de la verdadera naturaleza de la retórica. Y, por fin, en el Menón se trata de qué es la virtud, o, mejor, si ella es enseñable o, en su defecto, adquirible mediante la práctica.

328 pages, Paperback

Published December 1, 2007

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Plato (Greek: Πλάτων), born Aristocles (c. 427 – 348 BC), was an ancient Greek philosopher of the Classical period who is considered a foundational thinker in Western philosophy and an innovator of the written dialogue and dialectic forms. He raised problems for what became all the major areas of both theoretical philosophy and practical philosophy, and was the founder of the Platonic Academy, a philosophical school in Athens where Plato taught the doctrines that would later become known as Platonism.
Plato's most famous contribution is the theory of forms (or ideas), which has been interpreted as advancing a solution to what is now known as the problem of universals. He was decisively influenced by the pre-Socratic thinkers Pythagoras, Heraclitus, and Parmenides, although much of what is known about them is derived from Plato himself.
Along with his teacher Socrates, and Aristotle, his student, Plato is a central figure in the history of philosophy. Plato's entire body of work is believed to have survived intact for over 2,400 years—unlike that of nearly all of his contemporaries. Although their popularity has fluctuated, they have consistently been read and studied through the ages. Through Neoplatonism, he also greatly influenced both Christian and Islamic philosophy. In modern times, Alfred North Whitehead famously said: "the safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato."