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EUTHYPHRO or ON THE HOLY: Dialogue between Socrates and the seer Euthyphro, focusing on the determination of the nature of the holy, that is, piety, and generally on the duty towards God. A critique of the religious views of the time.
CRITO or ON THE PRACTICAL: Socrates, imprisoned after his conviction, learns that his death is imminent. The harm caused to the perpetrator of the unjust act by his behavior. The absolute prohibition of retaliation for evil. Submission to the law of the city. Expression of the supreme principles of Socratic ethics.
ION or ON THE ILIAD: Brief dialogue on artistic and poetic inspiration and creation. Critique of the prevailing views on poetic art and poets. Poetic talent as a divine gift. The poet as an instrument of divine inspiration that overtakes him.
Plato was born in 427 BC, a scion of a prominent Athenian family. He received a great education and became acquainted with Greek philosophical currents. However, it was Socrates, with his life, philosophy, and death, that decisively shaped his moral and spiritual being. The great philosopher was the reason young Plato turned to philosophy, and Socratic terminology became the basis for the later development of Platonic theory of Ideas.
Plato profoundly 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 attempted, unsuccessfully, to apply his political principles in organizing the Greek cities of 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). His works, all preserved, were classified by Thrasyllus into nine tetralogies. Almost all belong to the genre of dialogue, through which Plato emerged, in addition to being a leading philosopher, as a true poet.
His teaching draws from the doctrines of Greek thought, Orphism, Pythagorean, and Ionian philosophy, and of course from the Socratic discourse, ultimately forming, as Plato's personal creation, a colossal philosophical system. His philosophy—moral, ontological, political—is the foundation of global Idealism and may have influenced more than any other the thought of all eras.
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Edition
- Cover
- Soft
- Number of Pages
- 215
- Dimensions
- 13x21 cm
- Release Date
- 1/1994
- Publication Date
- 1994
Content
- Reader Level
- Classic Texts
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