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(0)Plato
1) Republic
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English
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Republic, by Plato, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
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Publisher
Barnes & Noble
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
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Thirteen of Plato's most well-known dialogues are included in the collection "Essential Dialogues of Plato." Plato was a learned student of the early philosopher Socrates. Because Socrates did not write any works before his untimely death, Pluto took Socrates' beliefs and expressed them through imagined dialogues between the philosopher and his students. It was the first time in Western history that a philosophical dialectic between the teacher and...
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Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
1959.
Language
English
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Here in one book are the four classic accounts of the trial and death of Socrates. Here in one book are the four classic accounts of the trial and death of Socrates.
Here in one book are the four classic accounts of the trial and death of Socrates. Here in one book are the four classic accounts of the trial and death of Socrates.
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Series
Great books of the Western world volume 7
Publisher
Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc
Pub. Date
[1952]
Language
English
Description
The Dialogues of Plato, written between 427 and 347 b.c., rank among the most important and influential works in Western thought. Most famous are the first four, in which Plato casts his teacher Socrates as the central disputant in colloquies that brilliantly probe a vast spectrum of philosophical ideas and issues. Socrates' ancient words are still true, and the ideas found in Plato's Dialogues still form the foundation of a thinking person's education....
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Series
Harvard classics ed. by C. W. Eliot volume 2
Publisher
P.F. Collier & Son
Pub. Date
[1937]
Language
English
Publisher
Poseidon Press
Pub. Date
[1992]
Language
English
Description
Old age, they tell us, is not for sissies. Nevertheless, it is a territory that most of us can expect to enter and that, considering the alternative, we are usually willing to brave, however tentatively. Now, in this superb anthology, Wayne Booth, one of our most widely read and admired literary critics, offers us aid and comfort: the marvelous work of some of our greatest writers and poets on what growing older is really like, with a wonderful bonus...
Series
Library of America volume 333
Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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Across a turbulent history, Black poets created a rich and multifaceted tradition that has been both a reckoning with American realities and an imaginative response to them. One of the great American art forms, African American poetry encompasses many kinds of verse: formal, experimental, vernacular, lyric, and protest. The anthology opens with moving testaments to the power of poetry as a means of self-assertion, as enslaved people voice their passionate...