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The largest dialogue of Plato, a work from the later period of his creation. Books XI and XII. Continuation of the development of criminal law. Crimes against property, crimes related to economic life. Crimes against the state. The accountability of the rulers.
Plato was born in 427 BC, a scion of a prominent Athenian family. He received an excellent education and was acquainted with 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 conceptual framework became the basis for the later Platonic theory of Ideas.
Plato profoundly interpreted Socrates as a man and teacher, and captured 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 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 times of Justinian.
Plato dedicated himself to teaching and writing until his death (348 BC). All of his works have been preserved and were classified by Thrasyllus into nine tetralogies. Almost all of them belong to the genre of dialogue, with which Plato emerged, not only as a leading philosopher but as a true poet.
His teaching arises from the doctrines of Greek thought, Orphism, Pythagoreanism, and Ionian philosophy, and of course the Socratic discourse, and ultimately takes shape as Plato's personal creation in a colossal philosophical system. His philosophy - ethical, ontological, political - is the foundation of global Idealism and perhaps influenced the thought of all times more than any other.
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Edition
- Cover
- Soft
- Number of Pages
- 184
- Dimensions
- 12.5x21 cm
- Release Date
- -
- Publication Date
- 1992
Content
- Reader Level
- Classic Texts
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