18 books like Πρωταγόρας

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Μένων Plato · 1869 · ★ 4.0 · 108p · ≈ 3h · Challenging Text and essays edited by Malcom Brown: St. Augustine / From On the teacher; G.W. Leibniz / From Discourse on metaphysics; Friedrich Nietzsche / From Introduction to the study of the Platonic dialogues; F.M. Cornford / Anamnesis; Karl Popper / The nature of philosophical problems and their roots in science; H.-P. Stahl / beginnings of propositional logic in Plato; Malcolm Brown / Plato… Shares: Plato, Socrates, Ancient Philosophy, Early works to 1800

Plato and Platonism Walter Pater · 1893 · ★ 3.9 · 276p · ≈ 9h · Challenging Plato’s ideas have had an enduring and important impact on philosophy, science, and all people, from the ancient kings to modern day man and to all people in between. He passionately touches on the topics of love, virtue, politics, the soul, and ethics in his dialogues. Plato and Platonism demystifies the complex roots of Hellenic philosophy by explaining the impact Plato had on the world when he… Shares: Plato, Ancient Philosophy, Philosophy

Memorabilia Xenophon · 1650 · ★ 4.0 · 236p · ≈ 7h · Demanding The Memorabilia Xenophon - An essential text for understanding Socrates, Xenophon's Memorabilia is the compelling tribute of an affectionate student to his teacher, providing a rare firsthand account of Socrates' life and philosophy. The Memorabilia is invaluable both as a work of philosophy in its own right and as a complement to the study of Plato's dialogues. The longest of Xenophon's four… Shares: Socrates, Early works to 1800, Philosophy

Ἀπολογία Σωκράτους Plato · 1675 · ★ 4.0 · 124p · ≈ 4h · Demanding 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 the teachings of Socrates, Plato's works are among the world's greatest literature. The Apology is the speech made by Socrates in his own defence at his trail, and his justification for his… Shares: Plato, Socrates, Philosophy

Θεαίτητος / Σοφιστής Plato · 1921 · 336p · ≈ 11h · Challenging "Plato's Theaetetus and Sophist are two of his most important dialogues, and are widely read and discussed by philosophers for what they reveal about his epistemology and particularly his accounts of belief and knowledge. Although they form part of a single Platonic project, these dialogues are not usually presented as a pair, as they are in this new and lively translation. Offering a high… Shares: Plato, Socrates, Philosophy

Meditations Marcus Aurelius · 1626 · ★ 4.3 · 214p · ≈ 7h · Demanding Meditations is a collection of personal reflections and notes by the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius (reigned 161 to 180 AD), offering a profound look into the philosophy of Stoicism. It was never intended for publication, making it a raw and intimate self-help manual for the emperor during his campaigns and rule. The central theme revolves around living a good, rational, and virtuous life in… Shares: Ancient Philosophy, Ethics, Early works to 1800, Philosophy

De caelo Aristotle · 1545 · 147p · ≈ 4h · Demanding Page one of Aristotle's ''On the Heavens'', from an edition published in 1837 Shares: Ancient Philosophy, Early works to 1800, Philosophy

Mythe et pensée chez les Grecs Jean-Pierre Vernant · 1965 · 428p · ≈ 14h · Moderate When Jean-Pierre Vernant first published Myth and Thought among the Greeks in 1965, it transformed the field of ancient Greek scholarship, calling forth a new way to think about Greek myth and thought. In eighteen essays--three of which, along with a new preface, are translated into English for the first time--Vernant freed the subject of ancient Greece from its philological chains and reread the… Shares: Ancient Philosophy, Philosophy

Moralia Plutarch · 1500 · ★ 4.0 · 15p · ≈ 30m · Demanding The Moralia of the 1st-century Greek scholar Plutarch of Chaeronea is an eclectic collection of 78 essays and transcribed speeches. They provide insights into Roman and Greek life, but often are also timeless observations in their own right. Shares: Ancient Philosophy, Ethics, Early works to 1800, Philosophy

Γοργίας Plato · 1827 · ★ 3.9 · 134p · ≈ 4h · Challenging 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 are among the world's greatest literature. In the Gorgias, as in nearly all the other dialogues of Plato, we are made aware that formal logic has… Shares: Ancient Philosophy, Ethics, Early works to 1800, Philosophy

Gli eroici furori Giordano Bruno · 1887 · 136p · ≈ 4h · Challenging The second part of The Heroic Enthusiasts which I am now sending to the press is on the same subject as the first, namely the struggles of the soul in its upward progress towards purification and freedom, and the author makes use of lower things to picture and suggest the higher. It is interesting to note that in the first part of The Heroic Enthusiasts (page 122), Bruno makes a distinct allusion… Shares: Ethics, Early works to 1800, Philosophy

An inquiry into the original of our ideas of beauty and virtue Francis Hutcheson · 1725 · ★ 5.0 · 304p · ≈ 10h · Demanding "The Inquiry was written as a critical response to the work of Bernard Mandeville and as a defense of the ideas of Anthony Ashley Cooper, Lord Shaftesbury. It consists of two treatises exploring our aesthetic and our moral abilities. The first treatise argues that human beings possess a natural internal sense of beauty, whereas the second focuses on the "moral sense" that enables us to… Shares: Ethics, Early works to 1800, Philosophy

Παρμενίδης Plato · 1728 · ★ 4.0 · 160p · ≈ 5h · Demanding Revised edition. Volume 4. Translated by R. E. Allen Shares: Plato, Early works to 1800, Philosophy

Tragoediae Seneca the Younger · 1513 · 348p · ≈ 11h · Demanding v.1. Hercules furens. Troades. Medea. Hippolytus. Oedipus -- v.2. Agamemnon. Thyestes. Hercules Oetaeus. Phoenissae. Octavia. Shares: Ancient Philosophy, Early works to 1800, Philosophy

Φαίδων Plato · 1713 · ★ 4.1 · 198p · ≈ 6h · Demanding After an interval of some months or years, and at Phlius, a town of Peloponnesus, the tale of the last hours of Socrates is narrated to Echecrates and other Phliasians by Phaedo the 'beloved disciple.' The Dialogue necessarily takes the form of a narrative, because Socrates has to be described acting as well as speaking. The minutest particulars of the event are interesting to distant friends,… Shares: Ancient Philosophy, Early works to 1800, Philosophy

The guide of the perplexed of Maimonides Moses Maimonides · 1473 · ★ 3.7 · 419p · ≈ 13h · Demanding The Guide for the Perplexed (Hebrew:מורה נבוכים, translit. Moreh Nevukhim, Arabic: ‎dalālatul ḥā’irīn דלאל̈ה אלחאירין دلالة الحائرين) is one of the major works of Rabbi Moshe ben Maimon, better known as Maimonides or "the Rambam". It was written in the 12th century in the form of a three-volume letter to his student, Rabbi Joseph ben Judah of Ceuta, the son of Rabbi Judah, and is the main source… Shares: Ancient Philosophy, Early works to 1800, Philosophy

Χαρμίδης Plato · 1977 · ★ 3.5 · 64p · ≈ 2h · Moderate "Crois-tu qu'une ville serait bien gouvernée, si la loi ordonnait à chacun de tisser et de laver son vêtement, de tisser ses chaussures, sa burette à huile, son étrille et le tout le reste de même, sans mettre la main aux affaires d'autrui..." L'évocation de la priorité donnée aux affaires privées n'a rien d'étonnant dans le Charmide pour qui connaît l'entêtement de Platon à souligner l'état… Shares: Ethics, Early works to 1800, Philosophy

Werke Friedrich Nietzsche · 1896 · ★ 5.0 · 512p · ≈ 17h · Challenging 10 Werke von Friedrich Nietzsche Deutscher Philosoph und klassischer Philologe (1844-1900) Dieser Band enthält eine Sammlung von 10 Werken von Friedrich Nietzsche. Ein dynamisches Inhaltsverzeichnis ermöglicht den direkten Zugriff auf die verschiedenen Abschnitte. Inhaltsverzeichnis: Also sprach Zarathustra - Ein Buch für Alle und Keinen Die Geburt der Tragödie - Versuch einer… Shares: Ancient Philosophy, Ethics, Philosophy

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