Plato Series 1990
Presenter
Roger Weir
This series is a basic introduction to a major root source of the entire Western Philosophic Trandition. This is a rare
opportunity to survey an essential heritage. We will follow the translations in the Collected Dialogues of Plato, Bollingen Series
LXXi, Princeton University Press
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Presentations
- Apology: the traditional beginning of Platonic philosophy: the reported statements made by Scoratees during the trial in which he was condemned to death by the state.
- Phaedo: The Dialogue concerned with life after death Socrates final hours of life in prison.
- Gorgias: Socrates dialogue with the famous teacher of Rhetoric who champions Power as the greatest good for man leading to happiness.
- Meno
- Protagoras
- Phaedrus
- Symposium
- Republic
- Theatetus
- Parmenides
- Sophist
- Statesman
- Timaeus
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