Product Description: Plato 424/423 BC[a] – 348/347 BC), was a Classical Greek philosopher, mathematician, student of Socrates, writer of philosophical dialogues, and founder of the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world...read more

Product Description: Plato 424/423 BC[a] – 348/347 BC), was a Classical Greek philosopher, mathematician, student of Socrates, writer of philosophical dialogues, and founder of the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world...read more

Product Description: Plato's Allegory of the Cave is one of the most famous pieces of philosophical literature. This edition was translated by Benjamin Jowett and has been completely revised and updated.

Product Description: Es una obra de Platón que da una versión del discurso que Sócrates pronunció como defensa, ante los tribunales atenienses, en el juicio en el que se lo acusó de corromper a la juventud y no creer en los dioses de la polis. Aunque su datación exacta es incierta, el texto, por su temática, pertenece al ciclo platónico de las primeras obras llamadas «socráticas», que Platón escribió en su juventud, e incluso se piensa que es su primera obra...read more

Product Description: "Apología de Sócrates", de Platón. Platón fue un Filósofo griego, alumno de Sócrates y maestro de Aristóteles (427 adC - 347 adC)

Product Description: La condanna a morte di Socrate venne pronunciata nel 399 a.c. Prima che fosse eseguita, il filosofo tenne davanti al Consiglio una mirabile orazione che qui viene liberamente ricostruita da Platone. È il bilancio di una vita improntata alla ricerca e guidata dalla presenza divina: coraggio, sapienza, temperanza, giustizia sono le grandi virtù alle quali Socrate richiama se stesso e gli altri...read more

Product Description: The Apology is Plato's version of the speech given by Socrates as he defended himself in 399 BC.

Product Description: Plato studied under Socrates and was Aristotle's teacher. Together these three Greeks developed the basis of philosophical thinking for the entire Western world. Plato was also a writer, mathematician, and founder of the Academy in Athens, which was the first university in Europe...read more

Product Description: Of all writers of speculative philosophy, both ancient and modern, there is probably no one who has attained so eminent a position as Plato. What Homer was to Epic poetry, what Cicero and Demosthenes were to oratory, and what Shakespeare was to the drama of England, Plato was to ancient philosophy, not unapproachable nor unapproached, but possessing an inexplicable but unquestioned supremacy...read more

Product Description: Of all writers of speculative philosophy, both ancient and modern, there is probably no one who has attained so eminent a position as Plato. What Homer was to Epic poetry, what Cicero and Demosthenes were to oratory, and what Shakespeare was to the drama of England, Plato was to ancient philosophy, not unapproachable nor unapproached, but possessing an inexplicable but unquestioned supremacy...read more

Product Description: Of all writers of speculative philosophy, both ancient and modern, there is probably no one who has attained so eminent a position as Plato. What Homer was to Epic poetry, what Cicero and Demosthenes were to oratory, and what Shakespeare was to the drama of England, Plato was to ancient philosophy, not unapproachable nor unapproached, but possessing an inexplicable but unquestioned supremacy...read more

Product Description: GEORGE LUCAS HAS NOTHING TO APOLOGIZE FOR! Or does he? What if George Lucas was brought to trial before the Fanboy throngs at comic con? How would he defend Star WarsTM, and how would you vote: to condemn, or acquit? Hilarious and forceful, The Apology of George Lucas is half satire, half rigorous defense of the legendary filmmaker using the most famous philosophical defense in western civilization: Plato’s Apology of Socrates...read more

Product Description: "El banquete o del amor", de Platón. Platón fue un Filósofo griego, alumno de Sócrates y maestro de Aristóteles (427 adC - 347 adC)

En El Banquete de Platón, especulación teorética y creación estética se imbrican de tal modo que resulta difícil encuadrarlo con exclusividad en la historia de la filosofía o en la de la literatura. Consagrado a discutir sobre el amor, tras sucesivas e insatisfactorias maneras de abordar la cuestión, se expone a través de Sócrates y su supuesta mentora, la sacerdotisa Diotima, la doctrina de amor platónico que en sucesivos grados de abstracción conduce a esa especie de unio mystica con la forma ideal de la belleza a la que llega el verdadero enamorado de las cosas bellas. Dice Platón en su obra: «He aquí, pues, el recto método de abordar las cuestiones eróticas o de ser conducido por otro: empezar por las cosas bellas de este mundo y teniendo como fin esa belleza en cuestión y, valiéndose de ellas como de escalas, ir ascendiendo constantemente, yendo de un solo cuerpo a dos y de dos a todos los cuerpos bellos y de los cuerpos bellos a las bellas normas de conducta, y de las normas de conducta a las bellas ciencias, hasta terminar, partiendo de éstas, en esa ciencia de antes, que no es ciencia de otra cosa sino de la belleza absoluta, y llegar a conocer, por último, lo que es la belleza en sí.»

PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE: Socrates, who is the narrator, Charmides, Chaerephon, Critias. SCENE: The Palaestra of Taureas, which is near the Porch of the King Archon. Yesterday evening I returned from the army at Potidaea, and having been a good while away, I thought that I should like to go and look at my old haunts. So I went into the palaestra of Taureas, which is over against the temple adjoining the porch of the King Archon, and there I found a number of persons, most of whom I knew, but not all. My visit was unexpected, and no sooner did they see me entering than they saluted me from afar on all sides; and Chaerephon, who is a kind of madman, started up and ran to me, seizing my hand, and saying, How did you escape, Socrates?—(I should explain that an engagement had taken place at Potidaea not long before we came away, of which the news had only just reached Athens.) You see, I replied, that here I am. There was a report, he said, that the engagement was very severe, and that many of our acquaintance had fallen. That, I replied, was not far from the truth. I suppose, he said, that you were present. I was. Then sit down, and tell us the whole story, which as yet we have only heard imperfectly. I took the place which he assigned to me, by the side of Critias the son of Callaeschrus, and when I had saluted him and the rest of the company, I told them the news from the army, and answered their several enquiries. Then, when there had been enough of this, I, in my turn, began to make enquiries about matters at home—about the present state of philosophy, and about the youth. I asked whether any of them were remarkable for wisdom or beauty, or both. Critias, glancing at the door, invited my attention to some youths who were coming in, and talking noisily to one another, followed by a crowd. Of the beauties, Socrates, he said, I fancy that you will soon be able to form a judgment. For those who are just entering are the advanced guard of the great beauty, as he is thought to be, of the day, and he is likely to be not far off himself.