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The Trial and Death of Socrates (3rd Edition)

The Trial and Death of Socrates (3rd Edition) Library binding - 2000 - 3rd Edition

by Cooper, John M.; Plato

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Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., 2000. Library Binding. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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  • Title The Trial and Death of Socrates (3rd Edition)
  • Author Cooper, John M.; Plato
  • Binding Library Binding
  • Edition number 3rd
  • Edition 3
  • Condition Used - Acceptable
  • Pages 64
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.
  • Date 2000
  • Bookseller's Inventory # G087220555XI5N00
  • ISBN 9780872205550 / 087220555X
  • Weight 0.85 lbs (0.39 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.6 x 5.6 x 0.4 in (21.84 x 14.22 x 1.02 cm)
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 00047208
  • Dewey Decimal Code 184

Summary

Writing in the fourth century B.C., in an Athens that had suffered a humiliating defeat in the Peloponnesian War, Plato formulated questions that have haunted the moral, religious, and political imagination of the West for more than 2,000 years: what is virtue? How should we love? What constitutes a good society? Is there a soul that outlasts the body and a truth that transcends appearance? What do we know and how do we know it? Plato's inquiries were all the more resonant because he couched them in the form of dramatic and often highly comic dialogues, whose principal personage was the ironic, teasing, and relentlessly searching philosopher Socrates.In this splendid collection, Scott Buchanan brings together the most important of Plato's dialogues, including Protagoras, The Symposium, with its barbed conjectures about the relation between love and madness, Phaedo and The Republic, his monumental work of political philosophy. Buchanan's learned and engaging introduction...

About the author

John M. Cooper is Henry Putnam University Professor of Philosophy, Princeton University.