Lot 3 vntg pb Greeks SOCRATES: MAN AND THOUGHT~ARISTOTLE SELECTIONS~PLATO DIALOG

Description: Good to very good antiquarian condition. Toning darker with age. This edition presents, through translations by different sources, eight of Plato's "early" dialogues, all involving Socrates, his apotheosized master. Written in the form of question-and-answer sessions, these dialogues profile a man in a continuous quest for the truth, even when he is awaiting his execution, and demonstrate a particular system of gathering information and building knowledge, a system that is nothing less than the foundation of Western thought. *** A tour de force of scholarship and the art of translation, this volume includes a fully integrated set of translations by a single team, a feature enabling Greekless readers to read widely and deeply in Aristotle with continuity, appreciation for his use of technical terminology and for the structure of his philosophy as a whole. Building on this advantage is the most detailed glossary in any student edition, one which offers unparalleled definition and explication of Aristotle's terminology and makes clear the correspondence between Greek terms and their renderings. The editors' extensive notes, also co-ordinated with the glossary, suggest alternative translations of problematic passages, discuss Aristotles argument, and elucidate difficult passages. *** Professor Taylor's biography provides the best short life of the world's greatest philosopher and an excellent introduction to Socratic thought. The author, whose monumental volume— Plato: The Man and His Work— earned him a leading place in leading modern Platonic scholarship, assembles in this present book all that we can claim to know about the life and death of the man whose mind towers over the long course of Western thought. He reveals Socrates as "the man who created the intellectual and moral tradition by which Europe has ever since lived" and he presents him in all his fullness as "an original genius in whose character there was a unique blend of the passionate lover, the religious mystic, the eager rationalist, and the humorist. "We are to reconstruct," Professor Taylor writes, "as far as we can on the surviving records, the reaction upon such a character of the intense intellectual life of the Periclean age."

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