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Author : Chantal Maillard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780811228992
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (289 download)
Download or read book Killing Plato written by Chantal Maillard and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I write / / to make the poisoned water / fit to drink." --Chantal Maillard Longlisted for the PEN Poetry in Translation Award
Author : Plato
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1387197193
Total Pages : 117 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (871 download)
Download or read book The Trial and Death of Socrates: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito and Phaedo written by Plato and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-08-29 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new digital edition of The Trial and Death of Socrates: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito and Phaedo presents Benjamin Jowett's classic translations, as revised by Enhanced Media Publishing. A number of new or expanded annotations are also included.
Author : Gwenda-lin Grewal
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192849573
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (928 download)
Download or read book Thinking of Death in Plato's Euthydemus written by Gwenda-lin Grewal and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thinking of Death places Plato's Euthydemus among the dialogues that surround the trial and death of Socrates. A premonition of philosophy's fate arrives in the form of Socrates' encounter with the two-headed sophist pair, Euthydemus and Dionysodorus, who appear as if they are the ghost of the Socrates of Aristophanes' Thinkery. The pair vacillate between choral ode and rhapsody, as Plato vacillates between referring to them in the dual and plural number in Greek. Gwenda-lin Grewal's close reading explores how the structure of the dialogue and the pair's back-and-forth arguments bear a striking resemblance to thinking itself: in its immersive remove from reality, thinking simulates death even as it cannot conceive of its possibility. Euthydemus and Dionysodorus take this to an extreme, and so emerge as the philosophical dream and sophistic nightmare of being disembodied from substance. The Euthydemus is haunted by philosophy's tenuous relationship to political life. This is played out in the narration through Crito's implied criticism of Socrates-the phantom image of the Athenian laws-and in the drama itself, which appears to take place in Hades. Thinking of death thus brings with it a lurid parody of the death of thinking: the farce of perfect philosophy that bears the gravity of the city's sophistry. Grewal also provides a new translation of the Euthydemus that pays careful attention to grammatical ambiguities, nuances, and wit in ways that substantially expand the reader's access to the dialogue's mysteries.
Author : Jake Needham
Publisher : Marshall Cavendish International (Asia) Pte Limited
ISBN 13 : 9789814361262
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (612 download)
Download or read book Killing Plato written by Jake Needham and published by Marshall Cavendish International (Asia) Pte Limited. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jack Shepherd was a lawyer with friends in high places until he abandoned the fierce intrigues of Washington for the quiet life in Thailand. Plato Karsarkis was a famous financier, a master of the universe, until a New York grand jury indicted him for racketeering, money laundering, and murdering a woman to cover it up. Now Karsarkis is on the run with the international press in hot pursuit. One day Shepherd walks into a bar on the jet-set island of Phuket and finds the world's most famous fugitive waiting for im.
Author : Robert B. Warren
Publisher : Plato Jones Paranormal Mystery
ISBN 13 : 9781729183120
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (831 download)
Download or read book Murder on Olympus written by Robert B. Warren and published by Plato Jones Paranormal Mystery. This book was released on 2018-10-24 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Library Journal Science Fiction/Fantasy Debut of the Month (April 2013) Reimagining the Greek Gods of Olympus and placing them on modern Earth, this urban fantasy novel focuses on Plato Jones, who, after a stint with the Olympic Bureau of Investigation, is through with the Gods and their political games. While at first glance the Gods of Olympus are as different from one another as salt is from sugar, and despite their bickering, they share a universal bond, a thread of commonality that unites them: they're all jerks. Against Plato's protests, he's drawn into a murder investigation where the murderer's targets are the Gods themselves. Plato has cracked some tough cases: exposing cheating spouses, capturing treasonous heretics, and hunting three-headed dogs, but this time he's in over his head. How can he solve a crime that's impossible to commit? And what chance does Plato--a mere mortal--have against something powerful enough to kill a God?
Author : Plato
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316495299
Total Pages : 505 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (164 download)
Download or read book Plato: Laws written by Plato and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-09-08 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plato's Laws is one of the most important surviving works of ancient Greek political thought. It offers sustained reflection on the enterprise of legislation, and on its role in the social and religious regulation of society in all its aspects. Many of its ideas were drawn upon by later political thinkers, from Aristotle and Cicero to Thomas More and Montesquieu. This book presents the first translation of the complete text of the Laws for thirty-five years, in Tom Griffith's readable and reliable English. Malcolm Schofield, a leading scholar of Greek philosophy, introduces the main themes and characteristics of the work, as well as supplying authoritative notes on the structure and detail of Plato's argument, together with a guide to further reading. The book will be a key resource for those interested in Greek philosophy and of the history of political thought.
Author : Lindsay Zoubek
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN 13 : 1499461313
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (994 download)
Download or read book Plato written by Lindsay Zoubek and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2015-07-15 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the greatest thinkers of the ancient world is thoroughly examined in this resource. Readers will be introduced to the concepts and tenets of Plato?s philosophy, his methods of examining and teaching, and his influence on modern philosophy and political thought, including the influence of his philosophies on political systems such as communism. This book also explores Plato?s life and upbringing as a member of the aristocracy and his later life as a teacher who had to flee to escape slavery and death for his beliefs.
Author : Plato Plato
Publisher : Xist Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1681956942
Total Pages : 63 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (819 download)
Download or read book Apology written by Plato Plato and published by Xist Publishing. This book was released on 2016-03-17 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plato's Guide to the Good Life “The unexamined life is not worth living” -Apology, Plato An original account of the speech Socrates makes at the trial in which he is charged with not recognizing the gods recognized by the state, inventing new deities, and corrupting the youth of Athens. This Xist Classics edition has been professionally formatted for e-readers with a linked table of contents. This eBook also contains a bonus book club leadership guide and discussion questions. We hope you’ll share this book with your friends, neighbors and colleagues and can’t wait to hear what you have to say about it. Xist Publishing is a digital-first publisher. Xist Publishing creates books for the touchscreen generation and is dedicated to helping everyone develop a lifetime love of reading, no matter what form it takes
Author : Plato
Publisher : London : Macmillan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (7 download)
Download or read book The Trial and Death of Socrates written by Plato and published by London : Macmillan. This book was released on 1886 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Ebrey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108479944
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)
Download or read book Plato's 'Phaedo' written by David Ebrey and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-01-31 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive book on Plato's Phaedo that reinterprets many famous Platonic ideas, in part by situating them in their context.
Author : Zvi Lerman
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 9780739102053
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Private Agriculture in Armenia written by Zvi Lerman and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book details and analyzes an extensive farm survey of Armenian land reform. Zvi Lerman and Astghik Mirzakhanian, two principal contributors to the design of the study, present their invaluable insight into the rapid land reform strategy implemented in Armenia. Unique among the former Soviet Republics, the entire agricultural sector of this country shifted from collective, large-scale, farm enterprises to individual production in 1992. The authors pay special attention to the commercialization of private farms and their access to supply and marketing channels outside the old state-controlled system. Family incomes from farming and off-farm sources are discussed, as well as problems of rural social services and social infrastructure. The authors demonstrate how official statistical measures and record keeping practices in Armenia do not adequately account for this dramatic transition.
Author : Jeffrey R. Watt
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 1935503332
Total Pages : 562 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (355 download)
Download or read book Choosing Death written by Jeffrey R. Watt and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2001-02-22 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this case study of the Republic of Geneva, Jeffrey R. Watt convincingly argues the early modern era marked decisive change in the history of suicide. His analysis of criminal proceedings and death records shows that magistrates of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries often imposed penalties against the bodies and estates of those who took their lives. According to beliefs shared by theologian John Calvin, magistrates, and common folk, self-murder was caused by demon possession. Similar views and practices were found among both Protestants and Catholics throughout Reformation Europe. By contrast, in the late eighteenth century many philosophies defended the right to take one's life under certain circumstances; Geneva’s magistrates in effect decriminalized suicide; and even commoners blamed suicide on mental illness or personal reversals, not on satanic influences. Watt uses Geneva's uniquely rich and well-organized sources in this first study to provide reliable evidence on suicide rates for premodern Europe. He places his findings within a wide range of historical and sociological scholarship, and while suicide was rare through the seventeenth century, he shows that Geneva experienced an explosion in self-inflicted deaths after 1750. Quite simply, early modern Geneva witnessed nothing less than the birth of modern suicide both in attitudes toward it—thoroughly secularized, medicalized, and stripped of diabolical undertones—and the frequency of it.
Author : Aviezer Tucker
Publisher : Prometheus Books
ISBN 13 : 1616146559
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (161 download)
Download or read book Plato for Everyone written by Aviezer Tucker and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2013-02-19 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plato's dialogues, featuring his famous mentor Socrates, often prove difficult to understand for many contemporary readers. Students today miss the ancient cultural and historical references, and they have trouble following Plato's arguments as presented in dialogue format. This book remedies these problems by recasting five of Plato's dialogues into accessible and entertaining short stories in modern settings. The Euthyphro becomes a tale about a televangelist bent on disowning his son at a denominational boarding school in rural Virginia; the Crito - retitled "What do you have to do for your country?" - is focused on the question of whether a US citizen who considers a current war to be unjust should avoid a military draft by moving to Canada. In all of the stories (the Meno, the Statesman, and Phaedo are also included), the central character is Socrates, just as in the original dialogues, but here the maverick philosopher appears in twenty-first-century guise. The author, who has taught philosophy for many years, captures the tone, wit, and philosophical essence of Plato's dialogues in a modern English interpretation that is often amusing and fun to read. For instructors looking for an engaging way to interest undergraduates in Plato and for students who find the original works a bit daunting, this book offers an enlightening and enjoyable read.
Author : Plato
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486111342
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (861 download)
Download or read book The Trial and Death of Socrates written by Plato and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among the most important and influential philosophical works in Western thought: the dialogues entitled Euthyphro, Apology, Crito and Phaedo. Translations by distinguished classical scholar Benjamin Jowett.
Author : Plato
Publisher : Cosimo, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1616403136
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (164 download)
Download or read book The Works of Plato written by Plato and published by Cosimo, Inc.. This book was released on 2010-08-01 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Works of Plato: Analysis of Plato & The Republic are original Cosimo editions of a four-volume work, translated and analyzed by Benjamin Jowett. All of the works contained within are also published as separate works, but the four-volume set has added commentary from Jowett, considered one of the best translators of Plato's works. There are three editions in the Cosimo set; Volumes I and II make up the first book, and Volumes III and IV make up the second and third books. This set is ideal for any scholar of Plato and philosophy, whether amateur or seasoned. Volume III contains Plato's works concerning questions of the soul, mortality, love, and piety. Also included are dialogues featuring Plato's beloved teacher, Socrates. Included in Volume III: Meno, Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo, The Symposium, and Phaedrus. One of the greatest Western philosophers who ever lived, Plato (c. 428-347 B.C.) was a student of Socrates and teacher of Aristotle. Plato was greatly influenced by Socrates' teachings, often using him as a character in scripts and plays (Socratic dialogues), which he used to demonstrate philosophical ideas. Plato's dialogues were and still are used to teach a wide range of subjects, including politics, mathematics, rhetoric, logic, and, naturally, philosophy.
Author : Olympiodorus (the Younger, of Alexandria)
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9789004109728
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (97 download)
Download or read book Commentary on Plato's Gorgias written by Olympiodorus (the Younger, of Alexandria) and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1998 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a modern, annotated translation of antiquity's only extant commentary on Plato's moral and political dialogue "Gorgias," in which the author defends ancient Greek philosophy and culture at a time when Christianity has almost replaced it. The first translation into any modern language of a central work in Platonic studies is accompanied by annotations which guide the reader in understanding the obscurities of the text, an introduction to the main issues raised by it, and a bibliography of the modern literature.
Author : R. F. Stalley
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780915145843
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (458 download)
Download or read book An Introduction to Plato's Laws written by R. F. Stalley and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 1983-01-01 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reading the Republic without reference to the less familiar Laws can lead to a distorted view of Plato's political theory. In the Republic the philosopher describes his ideal city; in his last and longest work he deals with the more detailed considerations involved in setting up a second-best 'practical utopia.' The relative neglect of the Laws has stemmed largely from the obscurity of its style and the apparent chaos of its organization so that, although good translations now exist, students of philosophy and political science still find the text inaccessible. This first full-length philosophical introduction to the Laws will therefore prove invaluable. The opening chapters describe the general character of the dialogue and set it in the context of Plato's political philosophy as a whole. Each of the remaining chapters deals with a single topic, ranging over material scattered through the text and so drawing together the threads of the argument in a stimulating and readily comprehensible way. Those topics include education, punishment, responsibility, religion, virtue and pleasure as well as political matters and law itself. Throughout, the author encourages the reader to think critically about Plato's ideas and to see their relevance to present-day philosophical debate. No knowledge of Greek is required and only a limited background in philosophy. Although aimed primarily at students, the book will also be of interest to more advanced readers since it provides for the first time a philosophical, as opposed to linguistic or historical, commentary on the Laws in English.
