Author: PlatoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dialogues, Greek
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
The Four Socratic Dialogues of Plato
Author: PlatoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dialogues, Greek
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
The Trial and Death of Socrates
Author: PlatoPublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486111342
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 129
Book Description
Among the most important and influential philosophical works in Western thought: the dialogues entitled Euthyphro, Apology, Crito and Phaedo. Translations by distinguished classical scholar Benjamin Jowett.
The Four Socratic Dialogues of Plato, Translated Into English
Author: PlatoThe Four Socratic Dialogues of Plato
Author: PlatoPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781330306932
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Excerpt from The Four Socratic Dialogues of Plato This, again, raises the question, whether an act is pious because the gods are pleased with it, or the gods are pleased with it because it is pious. If the latter, then piety must be defined as a part of justice or righteousness: but justice or righteousness is generally regarded as concerned only with our duties to men. We are therefore involved in a critical discussion of the question, whether the service of God imposes special duties, distinct from those involved in the service of man. The dialogue ends with the apparently negative conclusion that, if we exclude the absurd idea that men can help the gods, piety can only consist in doing what is pleasing to them - the very definition which has already been rejected as unsatisfactory. But the attentive reader will recognize that the discussion has brought us to a point of view from which piety is seen to be not a special department of morality, but only the religious aspect of it. In the Apology, which probably contains the substance of the defence actually made by Socrates, he is represented as explaining to his judges the nature of his peculiar mission. He is a gadfly sent to rouse the Athenians from their 'dogmatic slumbers,' and to make them reflect on the meaning and purpose of their lives. They are living in an ignorance which is the deeper that they think they know, and therefore are always ready to pronounce judgement on any ethical question. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The Four Socratic Dialogues of Plato
Author: Edward CairdPublisher: Sagwan Press
ISBN: 9781296905880
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
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The Four Socratic Dialogues of Plato
Author: PlatoThe Four Socratic Dialogues of Plato (Classic Reprint)
Author: Plato PlatoPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781528370080
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Excerpt from The Four Socratic Dialogues of Plato The Eutbypbra, which comes first in order, exhibits Socrates to us as a teacher, who seeks by his dialectical an to awake men out of their confidence in their own untested Opinions, and to stimulate them to inquire what they mean by their confident judgements on all ethical subjects. The search for a definition of piety leads to an exposure of the unsoundness of the basis of ethics provided by Polytheism, and it is discovered that thatalone can be regarded as a pious act with which all the gods are pleased. This, again, raises the question, whether an act is pious because the gods are pleased with it, or the gods are pleased with it because it is pious. If the latter, then piety must be defined as a part of justice or righteousness: but justice or righteousness is generally regarded as concerned only with our duties to men. We are therefore involved in a critical discussion of the question, whether the service of God imposes special duties, distinct from those involved in the service of man. The dialogue ends with the apparently negative conclusion that, if we exclude the absurd idea that men can help the gods, piety can only consist in doing what is pleasing to them - the very definition which has al ready been rejected as unsatisfactory. But the attentive reader will recognize that the discussion has brought us to a point of view from which piety is seen to be not a special department of morality, but only the religious aspect of it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Four Socratic Dialogues of Plato
Author: PlatoSocrates and Philosophy in the Dialogues of Plato
Author: Sandra PetersonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139497979
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
In Plato's Apology, Socrates says he spent his life examining and questioning people on how best to live, while avowing that he himself knows nothing important. Elsewhere, however, for example in Plato's Republic, Plato's Socrates presents radical and grandiose theses. In this book Sandra Peterson offers a hypothesis which explains the puzzle of Socrates' two contrasting manners. She argues that the apparently confident doctrinal Socrates is in fact conducting the first step of an examination: by eliciting his interlocutors' reactions, his apparently doctrinal lectures reveal what his interlocutors believe is the best way to live. She tests her hypothesis by close reading of passages in the Theaetetus, Republic and Phaedo. Her provocative conclusion, that there is a single Socrates whose conception and practice of philosophy remain the same throughout the dialogues, will be of interest to a wide range of readers in ancient philosophy and classics.
FOUR SOCRATIC DIALOGUES OF PLATO
Author: PLATO. PLATOPublisher:
ISBN: 9781033102404
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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