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Baby Professor
What would your fourth grader learn from reading biography? An entire world! You will be seeing events from the perspectives of someone who has achieved things that are worthy of…
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Plato Pathrose
Immerse yourself in the evolving world of automotive technology with ADAS and Automated Driving: Systems Engineering. Explore advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and automated driving, revealing the automotive industry's technological…
J D Blondin
Plato's Quest: Atlantis and the Emerald Tablet
In the mystical realms of ancient history and legend, a tale of profound transformation and discovery unfolds. Renowned philosopher Plato is at a…
Obed Delfin
Plato expounds his conception of the polis mainly in Republic and Laws; he also does so in Timaeus, Critias and Politicus. In these dialogues as a whole, the philosopher expounds…
Kenneth Quandt
In its Golden Age, Athens was both the most powerful and most democratic of Ancient Greece's city-states. This exalted status called into being a new art - the art of…
Nicolae Sfetcu
Plato drew on the philosophical work of some of his predecessors, especially Socrates, but also Parmenides, Heraclitus, and Pythagoras, to develop his own philosophy, which explores most important fields, including…
William H. F. Altman
In this book, William H. F. Altman turns to Demosthenes-universally regarded as Plato's student in antiquity-and Plato's other Athenian students in order to add external and historical evidence for Plato's…
This Critical Guide offers detailed analysis of all parts of Plato's Gorgias, together with diverse perspectives on its advocacy of a philosophical, just life as against a life of rhetoric…
Christopher W. Tindale
Studies Plato's approach to argumentation, exploring his role as logician, rhetorician, and dialectician in a way that sees these three aspects working together.
David Ebrey
This comprehensive book on one of Plato's most famous dialogues, the Phaedo, carefully reinterprets famous ideas, examines the dialogue's literary structure, and brings out the interest of its lesser-known parts…
Gary Pavela, DeForest McDuff, Gregory Pavela
"The value of this book is its focus on relationally, stories, and human connection. The authors situate academic integrity within ethical decision-making rather than within a rule-compliance framing. This work…
George Myerson
Potone lives in Athens with her mum, her stepdad and her incredibly annoying brother, Plato. The city is at war with the ferocious Spartans. When Potone is not arguing with…
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This essential reference text on the life, thought and writings of Plato uses over 160 short, accessible articles to cover a complete range of topics for both the first-time student…
The Legacy of Plato's Timaeus examines the influence of the Timaeus on the early disciplinary histories of cosmology, music, medicine, and architecture and investigates how in turn the interpretation of…
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Frances Aymar Mathews
Ce livre classique a ete initialement publie il y a plusieurs decennies sous le titre "My Lady Peggy Goes to Town". Il a maintenant ete traduit par Writat en langue…
Rod Jenks
In Plato on the Unity of the Virtues, Rod Jenks argues that while Plato makes several attempts to show how virtue is one, he deliberately fails to secure this because…
Jamhuri is the only Swahili translation of the famous book The Republic by Plato, made by the Father of the Nation, Mwalimu Julius Kambarage Nyerere. This is his last literary…
J D Ponce
This exciting essay focuses on the explanation and analysis of Plato's The Republic, one the most influential works in history and whose understanding, due to its complexity and depth, escapes…
Plato, Benjamin Jowett
In the Republic, Socrates discusses the meaning of justice and whether the just man is happier than the unjust man with various Athenians and foreigners. He considers the natures of…
Parmenides delves into a profound philosophical discussion centered around Socrates' challenge to the revered Parmenides and Zeno.
Plato
The Republic by Plato is a timeless philosophical masterpiece exploring justice, morality, and the ideal society. Through Socratic dialogues, it delves into governance, education, and the nature of reality, challenging…
Dive into Plato's Protagoras, where Socrates and the sophist Protagoras engage in a thought-provoking dialogue on virtue and knowledge. Explore timeless questions of truth and morality as they challenge each…
In Sophist by Plato, Socrates encounters the enigmatic Stranger from Elea, engaging in a gripping dialectic on the nature of being and appearance. Delve into this profound exploration of ontology…
Statesman by Plato offers profound insights into the complexities of political authority and the ethical responsibilities of those in power.
In this modern adaptation of Plato's ????????? (Symposium), a group of distinguished Athenians gather at a feast and take turns delivering profound and playful speeches in praise of love (eros)…
An exploration of one of the most fundamental human questions: how to lead a good life. Taking the form of a discussion between the hedonist Philebus, his naive disciple, Protarchus…
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In the course of a lively drinking party, a group of Athenian intellectuals exchange views on eros, or desire. From their conversation emerge a series of subtle reflections on gender…
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In the Laws, Plato describes in fascinating detail a comprehensive system of legislation in a small agricultural utopia he named Magnesia.
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Embark on an unparalleled journey through the mind of Plato, one of history's most influential philosophers. This comprehensive collection, divided into four distinct volumes, provides a sweeping overview of Platonic…
Protagoras, is a classical book and has been considered important throughout the human history. So that this book is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its…
This text deals with various questions and all of them constitute a path that leads to philosophy as an art of living. It is intended for all audiences, since the…
Carolina Araujo
In this pathbreaking interpretation of Plato's foundational text of political philosophy, Carolina Araujo reveals how the Republic remains ripe for an interpretation grounded in notions of cooperation, flourishing and justice…
Mark Eli Kalderon
This volume offers a wide-ranging study on perception in the Timaeus, not only discussing senses such as touch, taste, and olfaction alongside audition and vision, but also engaging with Timaeus'…
Andrew Fiala
Power grabs, partisan stand-offs, propaganda, and riots make for tantalizing fiction, but the US seems to have devolved into a land that celebrates real-life dictators. Applying historical lessons to contemporary…
The second volume of a three-volume edition presenting the first complete translation of Proclus' commentary on Plato's Republic - the only sustained treatment of the dialogue to survive from antiquity…
An examination of Leo Strauss's 1948 notebook and other writings on the Euthyphro, Plato's dialogue on piety, using close analysis and line-by-line commentary.
Russell Winslow
Necessity and Philosophy in Plato's Republic offers an interpretation of the concept of necessity in what is perhaps Plato's most read dialogue. The book argues that to read the Republic…
Plato, Original Thinkers Institute
The Complete Works of Plato is a magnificent collection that immerses readers in the timeless wisdom and intellectual brilliance of one of history's greatest philosophers. From dialogues exploring the nature…
Sears Jayne
From the time of the Roman Republic, continental Europeans traveling to England brought knowledge of Greek and Roman intellectual culture in the form of books of every genre. But, until…
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Daniel Sanderson
Plato Re-Imagined connects ancient philosophy with modern insights, clarifying Plato's ideas and their relevance today. It explores virtue ethics as a pathway to the good life. For more details, visit…
Michael Share, Dirk Baltzly
This commentary records, through notes taken by Hermias, Syrianus' seminar on Plato's Phaedrus, one of the world's most influential celebrations of erotic beauty and love. It is the only Neoplatonic…
This book is an edited collection on one of Plato's most dramatic as well as most complex dialogues, where a defence of the philosopher's way of life is carried out…
Will Durant
In "Will Durant on Ancient Greek Philosophy," the eminent historian and philosopher, Will Durant, guides readers on a profound exploration of the intellectual bedrock of Western civilization. Through eloquent prose…
Russell E. Gmirkin
This book argues that the biblical creation accounts draw directly from Plato's Timaeus, demonstrating the influence of Plato and the cosmogenies of Greek natural philosophers on Genesis. Suitable for students…
Laurence Lampert
"In this brilliant analysis of the coming to be of Strauss, Plato, and Nietzsche as philosophers and poets, Laurence Lampert reaches new heights and plumbs new depths. An extraordinarily rich…
Rubi Rodrigues
In three different approaches to the work, an attempt is made to understand Plato's peculiar way of thinking. In Plato's Letter VII: The Unwritten Doctrines, the theses of Professor Terence…
