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Laws

By Plato

Translated by Benjamin Jowett

COMPLETE ANCIENT CLASSICS

The Laws is Plato's last and longest dialogue. The conversation depicted in the work's twelve books begins with the question of who is given the credit for establishing a civilization's laws. Its musings on the ethics of government and law have established it as a classic of political philosophy alongside Plato's more widely read Republic.

The Laws are discussed by three representatives of Athens, Crete, and Sparta. The Athenian, as might be expected, is the protagonist...

This book contains twelve engaging philosophical lectures given by Alexandru Dragomir, most of them given during Romania's Communist regime. The lectures deal with a diverse range of topics, such as the function of the question, self-deception, banalities with a metaphysical dimension, and how the world we live in has been shaped by the intellect. Among the thinkers discussed in these lectures are Anaxagoras, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, and Nietzsche.

Alexandru Dragomir was a Romanian philosopher born in 1916. After studying law and philosophy at the University of...

Die Forschung zu den platonischen Fruhdialogen hat vielfach festgestellt, dass der platonische Sokrates eine Rhetorik einsetzt, die auf Aporie, Verunsicherung und Irritation seiner Gesprachspartner zielt. Eine detaillierte Analyse der rhetorischen Strategien, die Verunsicherung induzieren, stellt jedoch bisher ein Desiderat dar. Die Untersuchung nimmt die fruhen Dialoge Platons hinsichtlich dieser rhetorischen Strategien, die Verunsicherung auslosen, naher in den Blick. Durch eine eingehende Analyse des Wortfeldes, aber auch verschiedener Formen der Bildersprache wird zuvor erschlossen,...

This volume investigates the historic, social, and economic value of wine, from the prehistory through to modern times. It focuses on the Aegean and Cyprus, two key areas for the history of the vine and the development of the economic value and trading of wine.The volume synthesizes archaeological, archaeobotanical, and organic remains, complemented by written sources.

Diagoras of Melos (lyric poet, 5th c. B.C.) has received special attention for some time now because he was regarded as a radical atheist and the author of a prose work on atheism in antiquity. He was notorious for revealing and ridiculing the Eleusinian Mysteries and was condemned for impiety at Athens. The present book evaluates Diagoras biography and shows that he cannot be considered to have been an atheist in the modern sense.