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ISBN: 0140150404

ISBN13: 9780140150407

The Portable Plato

Name: For the Philosophy Student...a Must
Item: The Portable Plato
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By Plato and Plato (edited by Scott Buchanan)

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Book Overview

Writing in the fourth century B.C., in an Athens that had suffered a humiliating defeat in the Peloponnesian War, Plato formulated questions that have haunted the moral, religious, and political imagination of the West for more than 2,000 years- what is virtue? How should we love? What constitutes a good society? Is there a soul that outlasts the body and a truth that transcends appearance? What do we know and how do we know it? Plato's inquiries were all the more resonant because he couched them in the form of dramatic and often highly comic dialogues, whose principal personage was the ironic, teasing, and relentlessly searching philosopher Socrates. In this splendid collection, Scott Buchanan brings together the most important of Plato's dialogues, including Protagoras, The Symposium, with its barbed conjectures about the relation between love and madness, Phaedo and The Republic, his monumental work of political philosophy. Buchanan's learned and engaging introduction allows us to see Plato both as a commentator on his society and as a shaper of the societies that followed, who bequeathed to us a hunger for the ideal as well as a redeeming habit of humane skepticism.

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0140150404

ISBN13:9780140150407

Release Date:March 1977

Publisher:Penguin Publishing Group

Length:704 Pages

Weight:1.02 lbs.

Dimensions:1.9" x 5.7" x 8.3"

Age Range:18 years and up

Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher

Related Subjects

Ancient Greece History Literature & Fiction Philosophy Politics & Social Sciences

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Rated 5 stars
For the Philosophy Student...a Must

By Thriftbooks.com User, February 22, 2008

Have been stretching my memory all day today as to who said: "All philosophy since the Greeks, are merely footnotes to Plato." Depending on one's persuasion, this is certainly debatable, however, philosophy is all about debate, discussion...asking the hard questions. As a student of philosophy or even a PHd in the discipline should always have this man's work at an arm's reach. Why? Because Socrates attempted to ask the hard...

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Rated 4 stars
Very good, but falls short of greatness

By Thriftbooks.com User, September 19, 2005

The selections included are fairly standard, but they are great works nonetheless. The translation is excellent. One major drawback is a lack of the textual reference numbers that most other Plato translations include. Aside from that, there is little to scrutinize about this collection.

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Rated 5 stars
portableplato

By Thriftbooks.com User, June 5, 2004

i guess i beat everyone to it, so i'll answer myself. I bought the portable plato book about a week ago. content-wise, i would redirect you to "great dialouges of plato" which includes all the stories in this book except "protagoras", and a few more, and is about 7 bucks (i think), the translation in this book from benjamin jowett, and "great dialouges" is w.h.d. rouse, both have been said to be great translations (i cant...

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