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A dialogue specifically addressing the issue of being. The dialectical relationship between non-being, represented by the sophist, and being. The concept of the latter is understood in relation to that of its opposite. The opposition of philosopher and sophist.
Plato was born in 427 BC, a scion of a prominent Athenian family. He received a great education and encountered the Greek philosophical currents. However, what fundamentally shaped his moral and spiritual essence was Socrates, with his life, philosophy, and death. The great philosopher was the reason the young Plato turned to philosophy, and the Socratic conceptualization became the foundation for the later Platonic theory of Ideas.
Plato interpreted Socrates deeply as a man and teacher, capturing his personality in many of his works. He traveled to Egypt, Cyrene, and Greater Greece, where he tried, without success, to apply his political principles in the organization of the Greek cities of Sicily.
In 387 BC, he founded the Academy in Athens, a renowned center of philosophy and the Muses, which lasted for nearly ten centuries, until the times of Justinian. Plato devoted himself until his death (348 BC) to teaching and writing. All of his surviving works were classified by Thrasyllus into nine tetralogies. Almost all belong to the genre of dialogue, with which Plato emerged, besides being a leading philosopher, as a true poet.
His teaching originates from the doctrines of Greek thought, Orphism, Pythagorean and Ionian philosophy, and of course the Socratic discourse, and ultimately shapes, as a personal creation of Plato, into a colossal philosophical system. His philosophy—moral, ontological, political—is the foundation of global Idealism and has perhaps influenced the thought of all eras more than any other.
[Excerpt from the publisher's or edition's presentation text]
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Edition
- Cover
- Soft
- Number of Pages
- 306
- Dimensions
- 13x21 cm
- Release Date
- 11/1993
- Publication Date
- 1993
Content
- Reader Level
- Classic Texts
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