ISBN: 9781421893914

Plato's Sophist provides a careful translation of the Sophist, one of Plato's most complex and difficult dialogues, and includes materials designed to facilitate its usefulness as a text … More...

Plato's Sophist provides a careful translation of the Sophist, one of Plato's most complex and difficult dialogues, and includes materials designed to facilitate its usefulness as a text in college courses. The translation employs a minimum of interpretative paraphrasing while being presented in clear, readable English. Special attention has been given to consistency in translating key Greek terms. The book presents a special list of these terms and discusses them in the endnotes. The result is a translation that enables the reader who lacks a knowledge of Greek to get much closer than usual to the original text. Cobb's introduction contains a detailed summary of the entire dialogue, clarifying the main themes and the general structure. He offers a fresh interpretation of the dialogue that shows how each theme contributes to the exploration of the nature of, and the relation between, philosophy and sophistry. The introduction is particularly useful to first readers of the Sophist.Author Biography: William Cobb is Professor of Philosophy at the College of William and Mary in Virginia. New Textbooks>Trade Paperback>Theatre & Drama>Drama>Plays, 1st World Publishing, Inc. Core >1 >T<

2008, ISBN: 1421893916

[EAN: 9781421893914], Neubuch, [PU: 1St World Publishing], DRAMA / GENERAL, nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware -The Phaedrus is closely connected with the Symposium, and may be regarded… More...

[EAN: 9781421893914], Neubuch, [PU: 1St World Publishing], DRAMA / GENERAL, nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware -The Phaedrus is closely connected with the Symposium, and may be regarded either as introducing or following it. The two Dialogues together contain the whole philosophy of Plato on the nature of love, which in the Republic and in the later writings of Plato is only introduced playfully or as a figure of speech. But in the Phaedrus and Symposium love and philosophy join hands, and one is an aspect of the other. The spiritual and emotional part is elevated into the ideal, to which in the Symposium mankind are described as looking forward, and which in the Phaedrus, as well as in the Phaedo, they are seeking to recover from a former state of existence. Whether the subject of the Dialogue is love or rhetoric, or the union of the two, or the relation of philosophy to love and to art in general, and to the human soul, will be hereafter considered. And perhaps we may arrive at some conclusion such as the following-that the dialogue is not strictly confined to a single subject, but passes from one to another with the natural freedom of conversation. 192 pp. Englisch, Books<

ISBN: 9781421893914

Paperback, [PU: 1st World Publishing], The Phaedrus is closely connected with the Symposium, and may be regarded either as introducing or following it. The two Dialogues together contain … More...

Paperback, [PU: 1st World Publishing], The Phaedrus is closely connected with the Symposium, and may be regarded either as introducing or following it. The two Dialogues together contain the whole philosophy of Plato on the nature of love, which in the Republic and in the later writings of Plato is only introduced playfully or as a figure of speech. But in the Phaedrus and Symposium love and philosophy join hands, and one is an aspect of the other. The spiritual and emotional part is elevated into the ideal, to which in the Symposium mankind are described as looking forward, and which in the Phaedrus, as well as in the Phaedo, they are seeking to recover from a former state of existence. Whether the subject of the Dialogue is love or rhetoric, or the union of the two, or the relation of philosophy to love and to art in general, and to the human soul, will be hereafter considered. And perhaps we may arrive at some conclusion such as the following-that the dialogue is not strictly confined to a single subject, but passes from one to another with the natural freedom of conversation., Plays, Playscripts<

2008, ISBN: 1421893916

[EAN: 9781421893914], Neubuch, [PU: 1st World Publishing], DRAMA GENERAL, Dieser Artikel ist ein Print on Demand Artikel und wird nach Ihrer Bestellung fuer Sie gedruckt. Über den Aut… More...

[EAN: 9781421893914], Neubuch, [PU: 1st World Publishing], DRAMA GENERAL, Dieser Artikel ist ein Print on Demand Artikel und wird nach Ihrer Bestellung fuer Sie gedruckt. Über den AutorPlato (428/427 or 424/423 - 348/347 BC) was an Athenian philosopher during the Classical period in Ancient Greece, founder of the Platonist sc, Books<

2008, ISBN: 9781421893914

Buch, Softcover, [PU: 1st World Publishing], 1st World Publishing, 2008