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OverviewWriting 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Plato , Scott Buchanan , Scott Buchanan , Benjamin JowettPublisher: Penguin Books Ltd Imprint: Viking Portable Library Dimensions: Width: 13.00cm , Height: 3.80cm , Length: 19.60cm Weight: 0.550kg ISBN: 9780140150407ISBN 10: 0140150404 Pages: 704 Publication Date: 01 March 1977 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsThe approach to accident and emergency films The plain skull X-ray in trauma The neck The thoracic spine The lumbar spine The shoulder girdle The upper limb Upper airway obstruction The chest X-ray The abdomen The pelvis The hip The lower limb Foreign bodies and penetrating injuries Non-accidental injury Hints IndexReviewsAuthor InformationPlato(c. 427-347 b.c.) founded the Academy in Athens, the prototype of all Western universities, and wrote more than twenty philosophical dialogues. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |