Box Platão

by Plato, Platão

Este boxe reúne em dois volumes o que há de mais representativo de sua de Platão. No primeiro, A República procura desvendar as sendas que levarão o homem a uma sociedade ideal, exercitando, através do diálogo socrático, uma sistematização do fenômeno político. No segundo, a trajetória da condenação de Sócrates, de quem Platão foi discípulo, proporciona uma profunda reflexão sobre o que de fato é a democracia em O julgamento e a morte de Sócrates — uma compilação dos diálogos "Eutífron", "Apologia de Sócrates", "Críton" e "Fédon", inédita no Brasil e prefaciada pelo poeta e filósofo Alberto Pucheu; e também o debate sobre a natureza do amor em O banquete suscita um sutil questionamento sobre os papéis de gênero, o sexo na sociedade e a sublimação dos instintos humanos mais primitivos. Cronologicamente distante por um período milenar e ao mesmo tempo necessariamente próximo por sua temática essencial e contemporânea, o pensamento infinito de Platão torna-se presente ao fazer pulsar, em nós, nossa própria humanidade.

800 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 21, 2018

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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."