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ALCIBIADES or ON THE NATURE OF MAN: A snapshot of the famous pedagogical relationship between Socrates and Alcibiades. A discussion about injustice and justice. The knowledge that a leader must have regarding these concepts. Self-knowledge as a way to attain virtue. The care of oneself and the need for continuous self-examination.
ALCIBIADES II or ON PRAYER: Alcibiades goes to dedicate a wreath at a temple and to pray. He meets Socrates, and they have a brief discussion about prayer. What we should ask from God. The model of brief prayer.
ERASTES or ON PHILOSOPHY: The conversation of two young men in a school in Athens prompts Socrates to intervene in a general discourse about philosophy. Spiritual and physical exercise. Does the soul benefit from excess or moderation in knowledge? Philosophy as a general spiritual inclination and as specialized knowledge of the good.
Plato was born in 427 BC, the descendant of a prominent Athenian family. He received an excellent education and was acquainted with Greek philosophical movements. However, what decisively shaped his moral and spiritual essence was Socrates, through his life, philosophy, and death. The great philosopher was the reason the young Plato turned to philosophy, and the Socratic concepts formed the basis for the subsequent Platonic theory of Ideas.
Plato deeply interpreted Socrates as a man and teacher, capturing his personality in many of his works. He traveled to Egypt, Cyrene, and Greater Greece, where he unsuccessfully tried to apply his political principles in the organization of the Greek cities in Sicily. In 387 BC, he founded the Academy in Athens, a renowned center of philosophy and the Muses, which lasted almost ten centuries, until the time of Justinian.
Plato dedicated himself to teaching and writing until his death (348 BC). All his surviving works were classified by Thrasyllus into nine tetralogies. Nearly all belong to the genre of dialogue, with which Plato emerged, apart from being a top philosopher, as a true poet. His teachings stem from the doctrines of Greek thought, Orphism, Pythagorean and Ionian philosophy, and certainly the Socratic discourse, ultimately forming, as Plato's personal creation, a colossal philosophical system.
His philosophy - ethical, ontological, political - is the foundation of global Idealism and perhaps influenced the thought of all eras more than any other.
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Edition
- Cover
- Soft
- Number of Pages
- 286
- Dimensions
- 13x21 cm
- Release Date
- 11/1993
- Publication Date
- 1993
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- Reader Level
- Classic Texts
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