Edited by Scott Buchanan (3 results)
More imagesPublished by The Viking Portable Library, 1966
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Contact seller5-star sellerSoft cover. Condition: Fair. 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 allows us to see Plato both as a commentator on his society and as a shaper of the societies that followed, who bequeathed to us a hunger for the ideal as well as a redeeming habit of humane skepticism. Condition: Covers have edge wear and light corner thumbing. Pages are clean with light age tanning. Binding is firm.
Published by Viking Press, New York, 1968
- Softcover
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Add to basketPaperback. Condition: As New. T-Buchplato; Plato (edited By Buchanan, Scott; Jowett translation) The Portable Plato.
Published by Viking Press, 1960
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Add to basketPaperback. Condition: As New. T-Platoj.
