Philebus - Brossura

Plato

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0198720548 ISBN 13: 9780198720546

Casa editrice: Oxford University Press, 1975

Riassunto

Philebus is among the last of the late Socratic dialogues of the ancient Greek philosopher Plato. Socrates is the primary speaker in Philebus, unlike in the other late dialogues. The other speakers are Philebus and Protarchus.

The dialogue's central question concerns the relative value of pleasure and understanding, and produces a model for thinking about how complex structures are developed. Socrates begins by summarizing the two sides of the dialogue:

Philebus was saying that enjoyment and pleasure and delight, and the class of feelings akin to them, are a good to every living being, whereas I contend, that not these, but wisdom and intelligence and memory, and their kindred, right opinion and true reasoning, are better and more desirable than pleasure for all who are able to partake of them, and that to all such who are or ever will be they are the most advantageous of all things.

The dialogue is generally considered to contain less humor than earlier dialogues, and to emphasize philosophy and speculation over drama and poetry. (Quote from wikipedia.org)

About the Author

Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
Plato (wide, broad-browed) (428/427 BC - 348/347 BC), was a Classical Greek philosopher. Together with his teacher, Socrates, and his student, Aristotle, Plato helped to lay the philosophical foundations of Western culture. Plato was also a mathematician, writer of philosophical dialogues, and founder of the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the western world. Plato was originally a student of Socrates, and was much influenced by his thinking as by what he saw as his teacher's unjust death.

Plato's brilliance as a writer and thinker can be witnessed by reading his Socratic dialogues. Some

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Oxford University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1975
• ISBN 10: 0198720548
• ISBN 13: 9780198720546
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 254
• Redattore: Gosling J. C. B., Translated And Edited By J. C. B. Gosling