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Witty, sexy and radiantly beautiful, the Shelley translation of Plato's great Dialogue on Love, The Banquet (or The Symposium) is by far the best in the English language. It has been described as conveying much of the vivid life, the grace of movement, and the luminous beauty of Plato -- the poetry of a philosopher rendered by the prose of a poet. Although a masterpiece in its own right, the translation was suppressed and then bowdlerized for well over a century. In 19th century Britain, male love at the heart of the dialogue was unmentionable. The Banquet and Shelley's accompanying essay, A Discourse on the Manners of the Antient Greeks, were not published in their entirety until 1931, and then in an edition of 100 copies intended for private circulation only. For many years, the Shelley translation has been unobtainable, new or used. Pagan Press now offers a new edition, which is complete and authentic. In terms of both typography and editing, it is the most readable edition ever published. [via]
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"Astonishing, original....an early chapter in women's revisionary history [that] offers true eloquence resurrected from the silence of the past."The New York Times Book Review
In dialogues with three celestial ladies, Reason, Rectitude, and Justice, Christine de Pizan (1365-ca. 1429) builds an allegorical fortified city for women using examples of the important contributions women have made to Western Civilization and arguments that prove their intellectual and moral equality to men. Earl Jeffrey Richards' acclaimed translation is used nationwide in the most eminent colleges and universities in America, from Columbia to Stanford. [via]More editions of The Book of the City of Ladies:
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I bought a storage unit that had over 2000 books on every religion known to man. Just trying to get rid of them now. That's why they're going so cheap. All items are as described. Small tair on dj. Any questions please let me know and good luck!! (L) [via]
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'Perry's excellent dialogue makes a complicated topic stimulating and accessible without any sacrifice of scholarly accuracy or thoroughness. Professionals will appreciate the work's command of the issues and depth of argument, while students will find that it excites interest and imagination' - David M. Rosenthal, CUNY, Lehman College. [via]
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Philosopher and man of science, Whitehead is the man who went farthest on the road we all must travel. Here, recorded as conversations in his own home and clearly modeled on Eckermann s dialogues with Goethe, are some of the landmarks, signposts, milestones and noble scenery of that journey, and they are presented there in a volume The Washington Post called "as readable as it is provocative." Whitehead's mind is a compass for the modern world. In these pages the immense reaches of his thought in philosophy, religion, science, statesmanship, education, literature, art and conduct of life are gathered and edited by critic and writer Lucien Price. Time, the present; scene, the Cambridge of Harvard (with flashbacks to London, Cambridge, England, and his native Ramsgate in Kent); cast, undergraduates along with men and women, often eminent, who join in his penetrating, audacious, and exhilarating verbal forays. The subjects discussed range for the homeliest details of modern living to the greatest ideas that have animated the mind of man over the past thirty centuries. A noble mind is here exposed. [via]
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As the indisputable father of western philosophy, socrates stands as the archetype of free inquiry and intellectual honesty throughout history. He dared to explore the minds of men, to analyze the content of cherished beliefs, and to distinguish knowledge and truth from opinion. This philosophical gadfly irritated the people of athens, who tried him for corrupting their youth, and subsequently sentenced him to death for his "crime."in these four short works by plato, we come to experience the full range of socrates' penetrating mind. In the euthyphro, socrates searches after the truth about the nature of piety, even as he makes his way to athens to answer an indictment leveled against him.the apology recounts socrates' attempt to defend himself against the charge of impiety. Once condemned, socrates finds himself imprisoned to await death.the crito captures his views on his relationship with the state and what each has a right to expect from the other.finally, the phaedo recalls the death scene as socrates discusses the nature of the soul and immortality just before succumbing to the hemlock [via]
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The second edition of Five Dialogues presents G. M. A. Grube's distinguished translations, as revised by John Cooper for Plato, Complete Works. A number of new or expanded footnotes are also included along with an updated bibliography. [via]
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This second edition of 'Five Dialogues' presents Grube's distinguished translations, as revised by John Cooper for 'Plato: Complete Works'. A number of new or expanded footnotes are also included along with an updated bibliography. [via]
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During his years as Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, well-known Vatican prelate Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger has given three in-depth interviews. The first two interviews have become best selling books: The Ratzinger Report and Salt of the Earth. Because of the tremendous reception those books received, the Cardinal agreed to do another interview with journalist Peter Seewald, who had done the very popular Salt of the Earth interview. This third in-depth interview addresses deep questions of faith and the living of that faith in the modern world.
The interview took place over three full days spent at the Benedictine Abbey of Monte Cassino in a setting of the silence, prayer, and hospitality of the monks. For this meeting with the highly regarded Churchman, theologian, and author, the seasoned journalist, who had fallen away from the faith but eventually returned to the Church, once again provided a very stimulating, well-prepared series of wide-ranging questions on profound issues. The Cardinal responds with candor, frankness and deep insight, giving answers that are sometimes surprising and always thought provoking. [via]
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"In Rouse's pages, Soctrates' strength of mind, his dedication to the philosophical truth, are borne in on the modern reader with something of the power that impressed and disturbed the ancient Greeks."--Time
"There has been no adequate translation of Plato since Jowett...and I think Rouse has done it." --Dudley Fitts
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"In Rouse's pages, Soctrates' strength of mind, his dedication to the philosophical truth, are borne in on the modern reader with something of the power that impressed and disturbed the ancient Greeks."--Time
"There has been no adequate translation of Plato since Jowett...and I think Rouse has done it." --Dudley Fitts
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"In Rouse's pages, Soctrates' strength of mind, his dedication to the philosophical truth, are borne in on the modern reader with something of the power that impressed and disturbed the ancient Greeks."--Time
"There has been no adequate translation of Plato since Jowett...and I think Rouse has done it." --Dudley Fitts
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This collection of the timeless teachings of one of the greatest sages of India, Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, regarded by many as a "modern spiritual classic" is a testament to the uniqueness of the seer's life and work
"I Am That" preserves Maharaj's dialogues with the followers who came from around the world seeking his guidance in destroying false identities. The sage's sole concern was with human suffering and the ending of suffering. It was his mission to guide the individual to an understanding of his true nature and the timelessness of being. He taught that mind must recognize and penetrate its own state of being, "being this or that, here or that, then or now," but just timeless being. [via]
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The Last Days of Socrates, written by legendary author Plato, is widely considered to be one of the greatest classic texts of all time. This great classic will surely attract a whole new generation of readers. For many, The Last Days of Socrates is required reading for various courses and curriculums. And for others who simply enjoy reading timeless pieces of classic literature, this gem by Plato is highly recommended. Published by Classic Books International and beautifully produced, The Last Days of Socrates would make an ideal gift and it should be a part of everyone's personal library. [via]
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These dialogues by Plato have been translated from the original Greek by the scholar G.M.A Rube, whose translations are known for their lucidity and sensitivity to the nuance of argument and the interplay of philosophical ideas. [via]
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Focus Philosophical Library translations are close to and are non-interpretative of the original text, with the notes and a glossary intending to provide the reader with some sense of the terms and the concepts as they were understood by Platos immediate audience.
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A collection of unique portraits by British born, New York based, fashion photographer Platon, which includes over 120 photographs constituting a unique and dynamic cross-section through the cult of fame and power. Platon's subjects are all leaders in their field and include Al Pacino, Bill Clinton, Vivienne Westwood, Leonard Cohen and David Beckham. A collection of unique portraits by British born, New York based, fashion photographer Platon. Over 120 photographs have been selected from an enormous range of powerful images taken over the last decade and together they constitute a unique and dynamic cross-section through the cult of fame and power. Platon's Republic is a window into today's media-led culture that bombards, and sometimes overwhelms, us with images of world-wide importance juxtaposed with frivolity. Platon's Republic replicates the same intense and sometimes surreal experience with portraits of Al Pacino, Bill Clinton, Vivienne Westwood, Leonard Cohen as well as more documentary photographs of Jesse Jackson and Bianca Jagger demonstrating against the death penalty and football supporters. Granted extraordinary access to some of the west's most powerful people, Platon's subjects are all leaders in their field. Whether they are from the TV industry, politicians, actors, fashion designers, writers or musicians, they all wield enormous influence within their arena. Platons' portraits are graphic and intimate, but the unusual angles and revealing expressions are his hallmark. [via]
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Plato, the most brilliant of Socrates The cover shows a detail from a Greek amphora in the Louvre [via]
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It has been said that the entire history of Western philosophy consists of nothing more than "a series of footnotes to Plato." Vastly entertaining, occasionally shocking, and always stimulating, Republic continues to enrich and expand the outlook of all who read it.
Elizabeth Watson Scharffenberger holds degrees from the University of Chicago and Columbia University. A specialist in the culture and literature of Athens during the fifth and fourth centuries B.C., she teaches at Columbia University and New York Universitys Gallatin School.
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A newly designed second edition of the classic translation of Plato's timeless work, "The Republic," by the author of "The Closing of the American Mind." [via]
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A compilation of the essential works of Plato in one paperback volume: The Republic, The Symposium, Parmenides, Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, and Phaedo. [via]
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Long regarded as the most accurate rendering of Plato's Republic that has yet been published, this widely acclaimed work is the first strictly literal translation of a timeless classic. This second edition includes a new introduction by Professor Bloom, whose careful translation and interpretation of The Republic was first published in 1968. In addition to the corrected text itself there is also a rich and valuable essay-as well as indexes-which will better enable the reader to approach the heart of Plato's intention. [via]
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This is Thomas Taylor's adept translation of Plato's Republic. Plato's "crowning achievement of art and philosophy." "The idea that runs through the Republic is that the individual presents almost the same features and qualties as society, on a smaller scale, and in his argument Plato first considers the state and thence makes his deductions as to the individual." "Besides the enduring value of the Republic as a work of art, its philosophical and ethical teaching is of particular interest in the present disordered condition of social and speculative ideas. [via]
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Focus Philosophical Library translations are close to and are non-interpretative of the original text, with the notes and a glossary intending to provide the reader with some sense of the terms and the concepts as they were understood by Plato s immediate audience.
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In Symposium, a group of Athenian aristocrats attend a party and talk about love, until the drunken Alcibiades bursts in and decides to discuss Socrates instead. Symposium gives an unsurpassed picture of the sparkling society that was Athens at the height of her empire. The setting of the other dialogues is more sombre. Socrates is put on trial for impiety, and sentenced to death. Euthyphro discusses the nature of piety, Apology is Socrates' speech in his own defence, Crito explains his refusal to escape punishment, and Phaedo gives an account of Socrates' last day. These dialogues have never been offered in one volume before. Tom Griffith's Symposium has been described as 'possibly the finest translation of any Platonic dialogue'. All the other translations are new. [via]
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In the summer of 1818, Percy Bysshe Shelley pulled himself away from a flurry of other projects to devote himself to translating Plato's Symposium. Besides being one of the very great lyric poets of Romanticism, Shelley was an accomplished Hellenist, and had a natural sympathy for Plato's way of seeing the world. The result of his labor was a translation of Plato's principal work on love that is, in both clarity and felicity of expression, unmatched by any contemporary translation.
Much of what the dialogue offers to today's reader - namely, its invitation to see erotic experience as the privileged locus of our contact with the sacred and the divine - is lost in translation by failures of tone more than by inaccuracies or simple infelicities. The elevation and sophistication of Shelley's prose makes his translation a much better English vehicle for Plato's writing than the rather chatty and colloquial translations current today. Plato's speeches on love need an English idiom in which myth is at home, and in which humor rises to urbanity rather than descending to mere wit and joke. With Shelley, we get a translation of a great literary masterpiece by a writer who is himself a literary master, and his mastery is of exactly the type required by Plato's text.
This translation came at the height of Shelley's powers, mirroring in language and conception some of his finest works, and so is itself a precious document in the history of Romanticism, for which the reappropriation of Plato is second in importance only to the massive influence of Shakespeare. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, her husband's literary executor, upon publication of (a somewhat expurgated version of) the dialogue, boasted that "Shelley resembled Plato; both taking more delight in the abstract and the ideal than in the special and the tangible. This did not result from imitation; for it was not till Shelley resided in Italy that he made Plato his study. He then translated his Symposium and Ion; and the English language boasts of no more brilliant composition than Plato's Praise of Love translated by Shelley." If this goes too far, it goes at least in the right direction. [via]
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This third edition of 'The Trial and Death of Socrates' presents G. M. A. Grube's distinguished translations, as revised by John Cooper for 'Plato, Complete Works'. A number of new or expanded footnotes are also included along with a Select Bibliography. John M. Cooper is Stuart Professor of Philosophy, Princeton University. [via]
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This third edition of 'The Trial and Death of Socrates' presents G. M. A. Grube's distinguished translations, as revised by John Cooper for 'Plato, Complete Works'. A number of new or expanded footnotes are also included along with a Select Bibliography. John M. Cooper is Stuart Professor of Philosophy, Princeton University. [via]
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"The European philosophical tradition. . .consists of a series of footnotes to Plato." -- Alfred North Whitehead The dialogues of Plato stand alongside the Bible and Homer's Iliad and Odyssey as foundational texts of Western civilization. The works of Plato collected under the title The Trial and Death of Socrates have been particularly influential. This is because they provide both an excellent point of entry into Plato's vast philosophy and a vivid portrait of Plato's mentor, Socrates - one of the most uncompromising intellectuals in the pantheon of human history. It is predominantly through Plato's account in these works of the words and actions of Socrates during his trial and execution for impiety that the latter's nobility and profound integrity have become known to succeeding generations. [via]
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La narración se sitúa en el banquete organizado por el poeta trágico Agatón para celebrar su victoria en las fiestas Leneas del 416 a. C. Tras la comida Erixímaco propone pasar el tiempo en mutuos discursos y a debatir un tema que Fedro ha tenido en mente. Erixímaco pide que cada uno de los invitados improvise un elogio a Eros pues, según comentarios de Fedro, siendo éste dios uno de los más importantes, rara vez es encomiado como mereciera.
Es entonces el propio Fedro el que comienza la serie, con un encendido elogio del amor, Eros, al que considera el más antiguo y admirable de los dioses. Tras él, el sofista Pausanias habla de la doble naturaleza del amor, distinguiendo entre uno vulgar y otro que aspira a lo bello y lo bueno. Erixímaco, el tercero en hablar, propone una visión algo más científica, entendiendo el amor como un principio fundamental que, junto al odio, domina a la naturaleza y al hombre.
Sigue entonces el discurso de Aristófanes, al que se debe sin duda gran parte de la fama de la que goza el Banquete. En él se introduce un mito según el cual hubo un tiempo en que la tierra estaba habitada por personas esféricas con dos caras, cuatro piernas y cuatro brazos. Tres sexos existían entonces: el masculino, descendiente del sol, el femenino, descendiente de la tierra y el andrógino, descendiente de la luna, que participaba en ambos. La arrogancia de estos seres provocó la ira de Zeus que para someterlos los dividió con su rayo, convirtiéndolos en seres incompletos y condenándolos a anhelar siempre la unión con su mitad perdida. De este mito viene la expresión "media naranja".
Tras el discurso de Aristófanes el turno llega a Agatón y después a Sócrates, que comienza con un irónico exordio en el que advierte de que no elogiará a Eros faltando a la verdad sobre él sino que contará lo que sabe del amor sin callar lo que no sea hermoso. Sócrates explica que fue instruido en asuntos amorosos por Diotima, una sabia mujer de Mantinea cuya veracidad histórica no ha sido aclarada. El concepto central de estas enseñanzas es la sublimación del amor, proceso por el cual el amor a un cuerpo bello ha de conducirnos a amar todos los cuerpos bellos y tras ello al amor de todas las cosas bellas y de la Belleza en sí que, para Sócrates y Platón, que habla a través de él, resulta idéntica a lo Bueno.
El diálogo se cierra con la bulliciosa entrada de un ebrio Alcibíades en la celebración. Éste elogia entonces la figura misma de Sócrates, alabando su templanza y su apego a la verdad, a cuya búsqueda vive consagrado. De esta forma se muestra al lector cómo el propio Sócrates es la encarnación perfecta de los preceptos que él mismo expuso en su discurso. Como ejemplo, Alcibíades nos narra cómo, a pesar de que entonces toda Atenas reconocía su belleza física, Sócrates rehusó el trato sexual con él.
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Con su entorno festivo, en fecunda conjuncion de vino y discurso, de juego y mesurada seriedad, el Banquete, una de las mas bellas piezas filosoficas de la antigüedad clasica, y de las mas influyentes en la filosofia y literatura de todos los tiempos, nos habla de la concepcion que Platon tenia del amor en relacion con la filosofia, pero tambien con la felicidad que este especial modo del saber ofrece a quienes buscan, sin plenitud de los dioses pero con innata vocacion de eternidad, trascender el limite de la muerte. El impulso erotico, comun a bestias y humanos, atraviesa todo lo viviente y enlaza de hecho, en un todo armonioso, lo divino con lo mortal. [via]
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¿Puede un sistema comprenderse a sí mismo ? Si esta pregunta se refiere a la mente humana, entonces nos encontramos ante una cuestión clave del pensamiento científico. Y de la filosofía. Y del arte. Investigar este misterio es una aventura que recorre la matemática, la física, la biología, la psicología y, muy especialmente, el lenguaje. Douglas R. Hofstadter, joven y ya célebre científico, nos abre la puerta del enigma con la belleza y la alegría creadora de su estilo. Sorprendentes paralelismos ocultos entre los grabados de Escher y la música de Bach nos remiten a las paradojas clásicas de los antiguos griegos y a un teorema de la lógica matemática moderna que ha estremecido el pensamiento del siglo XX : el de Kurt Gödel. Todo lenguaje, todo sistema formal, todo programa de ordenador, todo proceso de pensamiento, llegan, tarde o temprano, a la situación límite de la autorreferencia : de querer expresarse sobre sí mismos. Surge entonces la emoción del infinito, como dos espejos enfrentados y obligados a reflejarse mutua e indefinidamente. Gödel, Escher, Bach: un Eterno y Grácil Bucle, es una obra de arte escrita por un sabio. Versa sobre los misterios del pensamiento e incluye, ella misma, sus propios misterios. / Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, this book applies Godel's seminal contribution to modern Twenty years after it topped the bestseller charts, Douglas R. Hofstadter's Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid is still something of a marvel. Besides being a profound and entertaining meditation on human thought and creativity, this book looks at the surprising points of contact between the music of Bach, the artwork of Escher, and the mathematics of Gödel.mathematics to the study of the human mind and the development of artificial intelligence. [via]
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Nach dem 1996 erschienenen Salz der Erde legt Peter Seewald einen zweiten Band von Gesprächen mit Kardinal Ratzinger vor. Entstanden im Februar 2000 in der weltberühmten Benediktinerabtei Montecassino, durch große thematische Bögen geordnet, in eher lockerer Fügung, fast mosaikartig, gewinnen sie ihre Einheit durch die beständig umkreiste Mitte des christlichen Glaubens. Die angesprochenen Themen reichen von Glaube, Hoffnung, Liebe über Grundfragen der Ethik, Jesus Christus bis hin zu Kirche, Liturgie und Sakramenten.
Seewald übernimmt die Rolle des kritisch nachfragenden, oft skeptischen Zeitgenossen. Ratzinger weicht keiner Schwierigkeit aus, ja oft vertieft er zunächst das von Seewald aufgeworfene Problem. In nie ermüdender Geduld und erstaunlicher Antwortfähigkeit, mit beeindruckender synthetischer Kraft zieht er die Grundlinien des Glaubens aus, um alle diese Linien wieder in seiner Mitte zusammenzuführen. Ratzingers zu Recht viel gerühmte Einführung in das Christentum (1968) hat so in ihrem Anliegen in der Gestalt des Gesprächs eine großartige neue Form gefunden, die inhaltlich denn auch durch ihr Gespür für die aktuellen Herausforderungen in Kultur und Gesellschaft besticht.
Nur wenig ist kritisch anzumerken: Allein aus der intellektuellen Biografie Ratzingers ist sein unnötiges, allenthalben spürbares und nur leise eingeschränktes Ressentiment gegen die historisch-kritische Methode in der Bibelwissenschaft zu erklären. Peinlich (und vermutlich vom Verlag zu verantworten) ist indes der Text des Rückumschlags, der Ratzinger als "einen der größten christlichen Gelehrten seit Thomas von Aquin" apostrophiert. Die vollendete Maßstabslosigkeit dieser Aussage zeigt aber nur einmal mehr die Notwendigkeit des Anliegens dieses großen und wichtigen Buches: die Einführung in die Mitte des christlichen Glaubens. --Martin Brüske [via]
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