مرگ سقراط

by Romano Guardini, محمدحسن لطفی (Translator)

مرگ سقراط (حدود سال‌های ۳۹۹ – ۴۷۰ ق. م) تفسیر چهار رساله افلاطون
مکالمهٔ اوثوفرون: درباره دینداری، آپولوژی: خطابهٔ دفاعی سقراط، مکالمهٔ کریتون، مکالمهٔ فایدون

Genres: Philosophy, History, Classics, Nonfiction

288 pages, Hardcover

First published March 1, 1962

About the author

Romano Guardini was a Catholic priest, author, and academic. He was one of the most important figures in Catholic intellectual life in the 20th century.

Guardini was born in Verona, Italy in 1885. His family moved to Mainz when he was one year old and he lived in Germany for the rest of his life. After studying chemistry in Tübingen for two semesters, and economics in Munich and Berlin for three, he decided to become a priest. After studying Theology in Freiburg im Breisgau and Tübingen, he was ordained in Mainz in 1910. He briefly worked in a pastoral position before returning to Freiburg to work on his doctorate in Theology under Engelbert Krebs. He received his doctorate in 1915 for a dissertation on Bonaventure. He completed his “Habilitation” in Dogmatic Theology at the University of Bonn in 1922, again with a dissertation on Bonaventure. Throughout this period he also worked as a chaplain to the Catholic youth movement.

In 1923 he was appointed to a chair in Philosophy of Religion at the University of Berlin. In the 1935 essay “Der Heiland” (The Saviour) he criticized Nazi mythologizing of the person of Jesus and emphasized the Jewishness of Jesus. The Nazis forced him to resign from his Berlin position in 1939. From 1943 to 1945 he retired to Mooshausen, where his friend Josef Weiger had been parish priest since 1917.

In 1945 Guardini was appointed professor in the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Tübingen and resumed lecturing on the Philosophy of Religion. In 1948, he became professor at the University of Munich, where he remained until retiring for health reasons in 1962.

Guardini died in Munich on 1 October 1968. He was buried in the priests’ cemetery of the Oratory of St. Philip Neri in Munich. His estate was left to the Catholic Academy in Bavaria that he had co-founded.

Reviews

[Amin]

روح آدمی هنگامی می‌تواند به نیکوترین وجه بیندیشد و تعقل کند که... از گرفتاری تن آزاد باشد و تا آنجا که میسر است دور از تن به جست‌وجوی حقیقت بپردازد... و آیا این همان مرگ نیست؟ مگر مرگ جز جدایی روح از تن است؟... و آیا اثر فلسفه این نیست که روح از تن و قیدهای تن آزاد بماند؟

سقراط، رسالهٔ فایدون

[Panthea]

حيف ِ پول
حيف وقت
حيف چشم

[Julie · Rating 5 out of 5]

I only read the Apology out of this book, but when I want to read through any of the other works in here in more depth, I'm defiantly going to this book. The book gives you a preface and sets up the dialogue for you, then goes through it passage by passage. I would only recommend this if you've read the dialogue in whole already and have an idea of what is going on.

[Denise · Rating 5 out of 5]

I have read this book in German after having read the original text of the Apologie of Sokrates by Plato. About Plato or the author of this book is needless to write because information is available. The book itself however is the perfect companion not only to the Apologie but also to Phaidon (another book of Plato). Most of us have a faint idea about Plato‘s Philosophy, Guardini however takes one by the hand like a good teacher and using, virtually, the texts explains what it’s all about. It is not always easy to read, but it is more than worth it. I always thought that Plato talks about faint ideas and an ideal world beyond the grasp of the average person. Nevertheless his texts are lively, full of drama and poignancy and Guardini explains everything, so that we, average people, may understand them. I am not quite sure, whether the chistian religious point of view of Guardini influenced his interpretation but it seems as if christianity emerged from this philosophical background! It is still the best way to start becoming acquainted with this important philosopher. Highly recommended!

[Aref Ashoori · Rating 2 out of 5]

سه ستاره به ترجمه انگلیسی و دو ستاره به ترجمه فارسی -که بد بود-. حجم زیادی از کتاب خودِ متن محاوراته. بخش اثوفرون و آپولوژی و کریتون فکرمی‌کنم تقریبا بی‌محتوا بود. اما بخش آخر کتاب که درباره فایدون بود خیلی بهتر شد.

[Amir Asgarzade · Rating 5 out of 5]

بهترین کتابی که تا به حال راجع به سقراط و افلاطون خوانده ام، همین کتاب است. ترجمه آقای لطفی بی نظیر است.

[Ali · Rating 3 out of 5]

طنز حکایت از ذوق و هوش و زیرکی دارد. حمله‌ی مستقیم ضرر دیگری دارد: حمله کننده خود نیز در موقعیتی که برای حریف ایجاد میکند گرفتار میشود، ولی آن که به سلاح طنز دست می‌یازد در آن واحد هم در آن موقعیت قرار دارد و هم فراز آن موقعیت
(مکالمه‌ی اوثوفرون)

[Irene Diez · Rating 3 out of 5]

Menuda mosquita muerta Bien muerto que está.