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The largest dialogue of Plato, a work from the late period of his creation. Books III, IV. The historical lessons on legislation and the governance of cities. The ideal city - the choice of its location and residents, the way its legislation is crafted.
Plato was born in 427 BC, a scion of a prominent Athenian family. He received an excellent education and was exposed to Greek philosophical currents. However, it was Socrates who profoundly shaped his moral and spiritual being, through his life, philosophy, and death. The great philosopher was the reason the young Plato turned to philosophy, and the Socratic conceptual framework 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 unsuccessfully tried to implement his political principles in organizing 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 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, with which Plato emerged, besides being a supreme philosopher, a true poet. His teaching is rooted in the doctrines of Greek thought, Orphism, Pythagoreanism, and Ionian philosophy, and of course, 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 perhaps influenced the thought of all ages more than anyone else.
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Edition
- Cover
- Soft
- Number of Pages
- 176
- Dimensions
- 12.5x21 cm
- Release Date
- -
- Publication Date
- 1992
Content
- Reader Level
- Classic Texts
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