Buchanan's learned and engaging introduction. In this monumental work of moral and political philosophy, Plato sought to answer some of the worlds most formidable questions: What does it mean to be. How you have felt, O men of Athens, at hearing the speeches of my accusers, I cannot tell but I know that their persuasive words almost made me forget who I was - such was the effect of them and yet they have. 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. Download: A 58k text-only version is available for download.
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