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  • Blindness and Reorientation

    Problems in Plato's Republic

    by C.D.C. Reeve ...
    Are the just happier than the unjust? In Plato' s Republic, Thrasymachus argues that they aren't, that justice is simply the advantage of the stronger. Though Socrates apparently refutes him, Plato's brothers, Glaucon and Adeimantus, take up his argument anew, challenging Socrates to show them that justice really does better further happiness than injustice. The nature of this renewed challenge ... Read more

    $95.19 CAD

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  • Apology

    by Aristotle ...
    Apology by Plato.This book was Plato's version of the speech given by Socrates as he defended himself in 399BC against the charges of corrupting. ... Read more

    $4.11 CAD

  • Euthyphro

    Enriched edition.

    by Plato, Miles Fenner ...
    Translated by Benjamin Jowett ...
    In "Euthyphro," Plato presents a profound dialogue that explores the nature of piety and the essence of moral virtue through a conversation between Socrates and Euthyphro. Set against the backdrop of Athenian society, this text employs a Socratic method to scrutinize popular theological beliefs and ethical principles, raising essential questions about the relationship between divine command and ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Golden Sayings of Epictetus

    by eBooksLib ...
    Another classic converted by eBooksLib.com. Are these the only works of Providence in us? What words suffice to praise or set them forth? Had we but understanding, should we ever cease hymning and blessing the Divine Power, both openly and in secret, and telling of His gracious gifts? Whether digging or ploughing or eating, should we not sing the hymn to God: � ... Read more

    $4.11 CAD

  • Greek Philosophy - Simple Guides

    by Sophia Macdonald ...
    Series series Simple Guides
    THIS BOOK WILL HELP YOU• to appreciate the revolution in thinking brought about by the Ancient Greek philosophers, who sought to make sense of the world through analysis, reasoning and argument • to recognize the key ideas of the most significant philosophers and their contribution to Western thought• to learn about the philosophers' lives, and their impact on society• to appreciate the value of ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Symposium

    by Plato ...
    In his brilliant dialogue, Symposium, Plato presents an imaginary dinner-party set in Athens in 416 BC where the guests include Aristophanes, Socrates and the most popular Athenian of his day, golden boy Alcibiades. The sequence of dazzling speeches culminates in Socrates' famous account of the views of Diotima, a prophetess who taught him that love is our means of trying to attain goodness. ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • A Classical Education

    The Stuff You Wish You'd Been Taught At School

    by Caroline Taggart ...
    Series Book 6 - I Used to Know That
    How many times have you wished that your history stretched all the way back to Greek and Roman myths and legends? Or that you'd been taught Latin at school? Or perhaps you wish you knew all about the great inventions and medical developments that have made our world what it is today? A Classical Education provides all of these classical facts that modern schooling leaves out and many more. Perfect ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • The Portable Plato

    by Plato ...
    Series series Portable Library
    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 ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Greek Buddha

    Pyrrho's Encounter with Early Buddhism in Central Asia

    by Christopher I. Beckwith ...
    How a Greek philosopher's encounters with Buddhism in Central Asia influenced Western philosophyPyrrho of Elis went with Alexander the Great to Central Asia and India during the Greek invasion and conquest of the Persian Empire in 334–324 BC. There he met with early Buddhist masters. Greek Buddha shows how their Early Buddhism shaped the philosophy of Pyrrho, the famous founder of Pyrrhonian ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Eryxias (Illustrated Edition)

    by Plato ...
    In 427 B.C., the Ancient Greek city-state of Athens was flourishing. Approximately 80 years earlier, the Athenians had formed the first self-representative democracy in history, the Peloponnesian War against Sparta had only just started, and Socrates was only beginning to lay the foundation of what would become Western philosophy. That year Plato was born to a wealthy family: with an uncle who ... Read more

    $1.36 CAD

  • The History of Animals (Illustrated Edition)

    by Aristotle ...
    Along with Plato and Socrates, Aristotle (384-322 B.C.) is one of the triumvirate of philosophers responsible for the establishment of Western philosophy as it exists today. Socrates, Plato and Aristotle were among the first to refine philosophical thought, and Socrates is credited with devising the Socratic Method as a way to argue and debate points rationally. The Ancient Greek philosophers ... Read more

    $1.36 CAD

  • To Demonicus (Illustrated Edition)

    by Isocrates ...
    Isocrates (436-338 B.C.) was an ancient Athenian orator, rhetorician, and teacher whose writings are an important historical source on the intellectual and political life of the Golden Age of Athens. The school he founded differed markedly in its aims from the Academy of Plato but it was influential in its time and attracted students from across the Greek world. Of his hundred pupils the most ... Read more

    $1.36 CAD