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The largest dialogue by Plato, a work from the later period of his creation. Books VII, VIII. Education. Athletics and military training. Relations between the two sexes. Trade and economy.
Plato was born in 427 BC, into a prominent Athenian family. He received a great education and was exposed to Greek philosophical movements. However, it was Socrates, with his life, philosophy, and death, that fundamentally shaped his moral and spiritual substance. The great philosopher was the reason young Plato turned to philosophy, and the Socratic conceptual framework became the foundation 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 attempted to apply his political principles to the organization of the Greek cities of Sicily.
In 387 BC, he founded the Academy in Athens, a famous center of philosophy and the Muses, which lasted almost ten centuries, until the times of Justinian. Plato devoted himself to teaching and writing until his death (348 BC).
All of his surviving works were categorized by Thrasyllus into nine tetralogies. Almost all belong to the genre of dialogue, in which Plato emerged not only as a leading philosopher but also as a true poet. His teaching stems from the doctrines of Greek thought, Orphism, Pythagorean and Ionian philosophy, and of course the Socratic discourse, and ultimately forms, 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 ages more than any other.
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Edition
- Cover
- Soft
- Number of Pages
- 200
- Dimensions
- 12.5x21 cm
- Release Date
- -
- Publication Date
- 1992
Content
- Reader Level
- Classic Texts
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