Gorgias
$17.59
- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
30 June 2008
Summary
The struggle which Plato has Socrates recommend to his interlocutors in Gorgias - and to his readers - is the struggle to overcome the temptations of worldly success and to concentrate on genuine morality. Ostensibly an enquiry into the value of rhetoric, the dialogue soon becomes an investigation into the value of these two contrasting ways of life. In a series of dazzling and bold arguments, Plato attempts to establish that only morality can bring a person true happiness, and to de…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780199540327 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0199540322 |
| Author: | Plato, Robin Waterfield |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 30 June 2008 |
| Weight: | 162g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 128mm x 11mm |
| Series: | Oxford World's Classics |
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Robin Waterfield was commissioning editor at Penguin between 1988-91, and now works as a consultant editor for Collins Harvill, freelance translator, and writer of children’s books. His acclaimed translations of Plato include Philebus (1982), Theaetus (1987), Early Socratic Dialogues (1987), Republic (1993), and Symposium (1994). He lives in Teddington, Surrey.
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