Archetype: Plato And Jung
Plato?s favorite examples of this is found in geometry. This is the idea of a line, circle or recollection. This is a process of gaining an understanding of the world or of abstractions nature but once one has the abstraction one can find things ... [... more]
Bella Online |
Mark Edmundson
Mark Edmundson is a professor of English at the University of Virginia. A prizewinning scholar, he has published a number of works of literary and cultural criticism, including Literature Against Philosophy, Plato to ... [... more]
Random House |
The Allegory Of The Cave - Plato
Plato explained that this situation was the one that lay between philosophers (those outside the cave) and the farmers and millers who focussed only on their daily life. Those who only cared about living day to day and not examining their world ... [... more]
Bella Online |
Plato
"The unexamined life is not worth living." Socrates's ancient words are still true, and the ideas sounded in Plato's Dialogues still form the foundation of a thinking person's education. This superb collection ... [... more]
Random House |
How Society Works: Plato's Contribution
Plato here brings up a crucial consideration. It is not the case, as Aristotle and most western social thinkers until the early 18th century had it, that exchange only concerns the "surplus" of production. If it did concern just an unplanned ... [... more]
Ludwig von Mises Institute |
Introduction To Natural Law
As we have indicated, the great failing of natural-law theory -- from Plato and Aristotle to the Thomists and down to Leo Strauss and his followers in the present day -- is to have been profoundly statist rather than individualist. This ... [... more]
Ludwig von Mises Institute |
Philosophy House
Imagine a house inspired by Plato and Aristotle. Architect Lee Skolnick took a "philosophical" approach when he designed a weekend home for himself and his family. Skolnick envisioned the hearth as the center of ... [... more]
Home and Garden Television |
Plato on Love: Lysis, Symposium, Phaedrus, Alcibiades, ...
 This collection features Plato's writings on sex and love in the preeminent translations of Stanley Lombardo, Paul Woodruff and Alexander Nehamas, D.S. Hutchinson, and C.D.C. Reeve. Reeve's Introduction provides a wealth of historical information about ... [... more]
$13.95
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The Dialogues of Plato, Volume 2: The Symposium (The ...
The place to start This was the first book I read on Symposium, and I was glad. Later when I wanted to know more I moved on to Rosen and Dover, but if all you want to do is read the Symposium with a commentary, this is the place to start. Allen gives you ... [... more]
$19.00
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Plato: Lysis. Symposium. Gorgias. (Loeb Classical ...
Plato, the great philosopher of Athens, was born in 427 BCE. In early manhood an admirer of Socrates, he later founded the famous school of philosophy in the grove Academus. Much else recorded of his life is uncertain; that he left Athens for a time ... [... more]
$24.00
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Plato: Laws
There is a well-known saying that the whole of Western Philosophy is footnotes of Plato. This is because his writings have set the schema that philosophy can be said to have followed ever since. Following under the teachings of Socrates, Plato's works ... [... more]
$19.99
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The Essential Plato
Plato is indisputably one of the most important philosophers of all time, forming with Socrates and Aristotle the trio of great figures at the heart of classical philosophy. The Essential Plato brings together the thinker's writings with an accessible, ... [... more]
$18.95
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