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Plato For Beginners
About this book
All philosophy is a footnote to Plato. No other person so shaped the Western world and the way we think about it.
Plato’s questions remain as real for us today as they were 2500 years ago, and as human beings, we can not avoid their presence nor shirk our responsibility to attempt to answer them:
Plato For Beginners also covers the history of Greece as well as the life and ideas of this great philosopher and his influence over time, from early Christianity to the 20th Century. The reader learns what he meant by Truth, Beauty, and the Good. Classical dialogues such as Symposium, Phaedo, The Apology, and The Republic are all explored in the context of his time and our own.
Plato’s questions remain as real for us today as they were 2500 years ago, and as human beings, we can not avoid their presence nor shirk our responsibility to attempt to answer them:
- What is Justice?
- What is Truth?
- What is Beauty?
- What kind of society should we build?
- How do we know what we know?
Plato For Beginners also covers the history of Greece as well as the life and ideas of this great philosopher and his influence over time, from early Christianity to the 20th Century. The reader learns what he meant by Truth, Beauty, and the Good. Classical dialogues such as Symposium, Phaedo, The Apology, and The Republic are all explored in the context of his time and our own.
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INDEX
Academy, Platos, 73–75, 142–43, 150
Achilles, 89
Agora, 16
Alcibiades, 28–29
Alexander the Great, 144, 146
analysis, 74–75
animals, origin of, 128
Antisthenes, 45
Anytus, 33, 36
apologies, 46
Apology, 46
Archelaus, 47, 105
Archytas, 70, 121
Aristippus, 45
aristocracy, 11, 110
Aristophanes, 26
Aristotle, 2, 145–147, 149
Athens, 7, 10–16, 32–36, 68
political evolution of, 10–12
war with Sparta, 13–15, 26–31
Augustine, Saint, 148
autocracy, 9
beauty, 86–87, 94–97
Carthage, 118
Castiglione, Baldessare, 150
cave, allegory of the, 100–104
Chairephon, 25
chariot and charioteer, allegory of, 77–79, 83–84
children, 113, 131
Christianity, 99, 148–149
circle, knowledge of, 50–53
city-states:
decline of, 144
ideal, 107–15, 129–41
classes, social, 133, 136–37
classicism, 6, 150
Cleisthenes, 11
Cleon, 27
Cleophon, 30
common good, 130...
Table of contents
- Coverpage
- Titlepage
- Copyright
- CONTENTS
- Who was Plato?
- History of Greece
- The life of Socrates
- Plato After the Death of Socrates
- The Path of Knowledge
- Plato’s First Trip to Italy
- The Path of Love
- The Divided Line and the Image of the Cave
- Plato’s Second Trip to Italy
- Plato’s Cosmology
- Plato’s Last Work
- Plato and Aristotle
- EPILOGUE
- INDEX