The Dialogues of Plato / The Seventh Letter

Description

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...

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Series Statement

• Great books of the Western World -- 7

Other Editions

• The Dialogues of Plato / The Seventh LetterEncyclopaedia Britannica1952-01-01
• The Dialogues Of Plato / The Seventh Letter (Great Books Of The Western World, Vol. 7)Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.1952-01-01
• The dialogues of Plato and The seventh letterWilliam Benton1952-01-01
• Seventh letter.HardcoverEncyclopædia Britannica1952-01-01
• Spurious and doubtful works.Encyclopaedia Britannica1955-01-01
• The Dialogues of PlatoEncyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.1986-01-01