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Philebus

Author
Plato
Series
World Classics
Language
English
Length
78 pages
ISBN
9781787241756
Published
15 February 2017
Imprint
The Big Nest
  • Plato
  • dialogue
  • Republic
  • Socrates
  • democracy
  • philosophy
  • political
  • soul
  • forms
  • poetry

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Description

The Philebus appears to be one of the later writings of Plato, in which the style has begun to alter, and the dramatic and poetical element has become subordinate to the speculative and philosophical. In the development of abstract thought great advances have been made on the Protagoras or the Phaedrus, and even on the Republic. But there is a corresponding diminution of artistic skill, a want of character in the persons, a laboured march in the dialogue, and a degree of confusion and incompleteness in the general design.

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Plato (c. 427–347 BCE) wrote the dialogues in which Socrates thinks aloud — justice, love, the shape of a good city. Philosophy here is drama. Interactive Media keeps those conversations in circulation.

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