The poet Agathon hosts a party to celebrate his victory in the competitions for tragedy. His guests include Socrates, Aristophanes, Alcibiades, and other notables, who expound on the subject of love, each from a different point of view ? the mythical, the sexual, the poetic, and so on. Socrates introduces the notion of a non-physical form of love, which inspires wisdom and creativity...

In the Statesman, or Politicus, written in his later years, Plato explores the concept of an ideal king or statesman and the question whether the best form of the ideal ruler is a person or the law. He discusses the roles of laws and institutions, the moral psychology of the citizen, and the importance of knowledge as entitlement to rule...

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Socrates, Protagoras, Hippias, and Prodicus discuss the nature of virtue, or goodness, and whether it can be taught. ..

In his Introduction, nineteenth-century translator Benjamin Jowett asserts that Plato attains the final development of his philosophy in the Philebus. Socrates leads Protarchus and Philebus in a discussion of pleasure and wisdom...

The nature of passion, love, beauty, and the soul are discussed in a dialogue between Socrates and his friend Phaedrus. The conversation digresses into an exploration of the subject of rhetoric and the passionate pursuit of truth...

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Considered the greatest philosopher of late antiquity and one of the great proponents of Neoplatonism, Plotinus wrote many essays, which were later compiled by one of his disciples in The Six Enneads. The essays deal with ethics, aesthetics, physics, cosmology, psychology, metaphysics, logic, and epistemology...

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This title is from the Hayes Barton Press "Originals" series, a collection of classic fiction and nonfiction works from world literature published in the VitalBook format. Look for new titles soon, as we expand to include more works from both Western and Eastern cultures. Available exclusively from the VitalSource Store...

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Science and Hypothesis is a collection of non-technical essays by Henri Poincaré in which he discusses various topicssuch as hypothesis in physical theory, concept of number, magnitude, and force. Poincaré was a renowned French physicist, mathematician, and astronomer...

Plutarch provides a detailed social history of the beginning of the second century in his Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans...

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