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The Portable Plato (Portable Library)

Paperback • 1977 • English

The Portable Plato (Portable Library)

By Alexander von Plato

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About the book

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 the...Show more

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9780140150407

Publisher

Penguin Classics

Published year

1977

Language

English

Original title

The Portable Plato (Portable Library)

Format

Paperback

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