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The Protagoras, like several of the Dialogues of Plato, is put into the mouth of Socrates, who describes a conversation which had taken place between himself and the great Sophist at the house of Ca……続きを見る

"El banquete" o "El simposio" es un diálogo platónico compuesto hacia el año 380 a. C. que versa sobre el amor. Esta obra, junto al Fedro, conformó la idea de amor platónico. Platón (Atenas o Egina,……続きを見る

Plato was a philosopher in Classical Greece and the founder of the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world. He is widely considered the most pivotal figure i……続きを見る

Things are said to be named 'equivocally' when, though they have a common name, the definition corresponding with the name differs for each. Thus, a real man and a figure in a picture can both lay c……続きを見る

Il "Timeo", scritto intorno al 360 a.C. da Platone, è il dialogo platonico che maggiormente ha influito sulla filosofia e sulla scienza posteriori. In esso vengono approfonditi essenzialmente tre pr……続きを見る

In several of the dialogues of Plato, doubts have arisen among his interpreters as to which of the various subjects discussed in them is the main thesis. The speakers have the freedom of conversatio……続きを見る

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 philosophica……続きを見る

John Marshall’s A Short History of Greek Philosophy spans the time between Thales of Milete up till the Stoics, covering School of Miletes (Thales et al), Pythagoras, The Eleatics (Xenophanes et al)……続きを見る

La naturaleza de la santidad, o usando el lenguaje de Platón, lo santo, ocupa el fondo del diálogo; y un supuesto encuentro del adivino Eutifrón con Sócrates es lo que da origen a la cuestión. Eutif……続きを見る

La apología puede dividirse en tres partes, cada una de las que tiene su objeto. En la primera parte, la que precede a la deliberación de los jueces sobre la inocencia o la culpabilidad del acusado,……続きを見る

WITH the world of intellectual production, as with that of organic generation, nature makes no sudden starts. Natura nihil facit per saltum; and in the history of philosophy there are no absolute be……続きを見る

The Nature of Things (De Rerum Natura) stands with Virgil's Aeneid as one of the vital and enduring achievements of Latin literature. Lost for more than a thousand years, its return to circulation i……続きを見る

Il viaggio in Oriente descritto dal libro seguì quello compiuto dal padre di Marco, Niccolò Polo, e dallo zio Matteo, mercanti che giunsero alla corte del Gran Khan. Tornati a Venezia, i due mercant……続きを見る

It is natural that, at the commencement of any study, one should be expected to say what the subject-matter of that study is. Botany is the knowledge of plants, astronomy of the heavenly bodies, geo……続きを見る

It has not commonly been the lot of philosophers, as it is of great poets, that their names should become household words. We should hardly call an Englishman well read if he had not heard the name ……続きを見る

«Lisis» es uno de los diálogos escritos por Platón, perteneciente a la etapa socrática, y que trata sobre la naturaleza de la amistad. 続きを見る

Plutarch was a Greek historian, biographer and essayist, known primarily for his Parallel Lives and Moralia. He is classified as a Middle Platonist. Plutarch's surviving works are believed to have b……続きを見る

THE Republic of Plato is the longest of his works with the exception of the Laws, and is certainly the greatest of them. There are nearer approaches to modern metaphysics in the Philebus and in the ……続きを見る

La "Lettera sulla felicità" è il testo più famoso di Epicuro. Nelle pagine che compongono l'epistola, il filosofo affronta i temi centrali della sua filosofia per quanto riguarda l'etica e la metafi……続きを見る

El "Código de Hammurabi" es un conjunto de leyes para organizar y controlar la sociedad, creadas en Mesopotamia, hacia el siglo XVIII a. C., por el rey Hammurabi, el responsable de fundar el primer ……続きを見る

"Eutifrone" è un dialogo della giovinezza di Platone. In esso viene trattato il tema della pietà e i protagonisti del dialogo sono Socrate ed Eutifrone. L'autore Platone (in greco antico Πλάτων, tra……続きを見る

Aristotle (384–322 BCE) was a Greek philosopher and student of Plato who stunningly changed the course of Western philosophy. He has gone down in history as one of the greatest philosophers of all t……続きを見る

Some dialogues of Plato are of so various a character that their relation to the other dialogues cannot be determined with any degree of certainty. The Theaetetus, like the Parmenides, has points of……続きを見る

The Cratylus has always been a source of perplexity to the student of Plato. While in fancy and humour, and perfection of style and metaphysical originality, this dialogue may be ranked with the bes……続きを見る

El «Critias» comienza ex abrupto. Puede decirse que el Timeo continúa en él sin interrupción. El preámbulo, de que ningún diálogo de Platón carece, falta en éste. ¿Será porque el Critias apenas está……続きを見る

In his brilliant dialogue, Symposium, Plato presents an imaginary dinner-party set in Athens in 416 BC where the guests include Aristophanes, Socrates and the most popular Athenian of his day, golde……続きを見る

"Cato Maior de senectute" (Catone il Vecchio, sulla vecchiaia) è un'opera filosofica, in forma di dialogo, composta da Cicerone nel 44 a.C., e dedicata all'amico Attico. L'argomento della conversazi……続きを見る

La filosofia greca può aiutare a leggere e a riflettere sugli avvenimenti del proprio presente? Forse la filosofia si nasconde davvero nelle pieghe della vita e i primi filosofi lo dimostrano propri……続きを見る

Il saggio, attraverso uno studio che unisce l'analisi dettagliata del I libro del De abstinentia animalium edei riferimenti testuali in esso contenuti ai commenti di studiosi moderni, non ha solo l'……続きを見る

The little book by Epictetus called Enchiridion or “manual” has played a disproportionately large role in the rise of modern attitudes and modern philosophy. As soon as it had been translated into t……続きを見る