Hippias mineur/Hippias majeur

Le banquet

Excerpt from OEuvres Completes, Vol. 4: Ire Partie, Phedon I. Les membres d'un groupe philosophique, reunis autour d'un directeur, et que le groupe soit ou non constitue regulierement en ecole, sont des associes et des confreres. C'est pourquoi le mot etai 90; m'a paru devoir etre rendu par camarade, plutot que par ami. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Œuvres Complètes, Vol. 4: Ire Partie, Phédon

The Alcibiades was widely read in antiquity as the very best introduction to Plato. In spite of its ancient reputation, many modern scholars have thought that the Alcibiades is not by Plato and it has therefore lacked a decent commentary. This edition remedies that situation. The notes explain difficulties of linguistic, literary and philosophical detail. The introduction includes a discussion of the dialogue's authenticity, and of the consequences that acknowledging its authenticity has for our conception of Plato's intellectual development.

Alcibiade

Timaeus, one of Plato's acknowledged masterpieces, is an attempt to construct the universe & explain its contents by means of as few axioms as possible. The result is a brilliant, bizarre & surreal cosmos--the product of the rational thinking of a creator god & his astral assistants, & of purely mechanistic causes based on the behavior of the four elements. At times dazzlingly clear, at times intriguingly opaque, this was state-of-the-art science in the middle of the 4th century BCE. The world is presented as a battlefield of forces that are unified only by the will of God, who had to do the best he could with recalcitrant building materials. The unfinished companion piece, Critias, is the foundational text for the story of Atlantis. It tells how a model society became corrupt, & how a lost race of Athenians defeated the aggression of the invading Atlanteans.

Timée/Critias

This text is extracted from Cornford's longer Plato's Cosmology. Timaeus (c. 360 BCE) is one of Plato's dialogs, mostly in the form of a long monologue given by the title character. The work puts forward speculation on the nature of the physical world & human beings. It's followed by the dialog Critias. Speakers are Socrates, Timaeus of Locri, Hermocrates & Critias. Some believe that it isn't the Critias of the Thirty Tyrants who appears, but his grandfather of the same name. The dialog takes place the day after Socrates described his ideal state. In Plato's works such a discussion occurs in the Republic. Socrates feels that his description of the ideal state wasn't sufficient for the purposes of entertainment & that "I'd be glad to hear some account of it engaging in transactions with other states" (19b). Hermocrates wishes to oblige & mentions that Critias knows just the account (20b) to do so. Critias proceeds to tell the story of Solon's journey to Egypt where he hears the story of Atlantis & how Athens used to be an ideal state that subsequently waged war against Atlantis (25a). Critias believes he's getting ahead of himself, & mentions that Timaeus will tell part of the account from the origin of the cosmos to man. The history of Atlantis is postponed to Critias. The main content of the dialog, Timaeus' exposition, follows.

Timée: Collection Philosophie

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Dialogues Biographiques Et Moraux de Platon: Dialogues Métaphysiques; Volume 2

The Republic

Ils sont allongés sur des lits et parlent de l'Amour et de la Beauté. Leurs discours se succèdent, parfois se répondent : car il y a plusieurs Amours et plusieurs manières de désirer le Beau. À ces hommes vivant en un temps et un lieu où l'éducation des garçons est indissociable de la sexualité qui règle les rapports du maître et du disciple, une étrangère, Diotime, oppose un modèle féminin de la procréation du savoir. À travers elle, Socrate dessine les étapes de l'apprentissage du philosophe capable de se détacher du monde sensible pour devenir l'« amant » par excellence qui guide l'« aimé » dans sa quête du Vrai et du Beau. Par-delà les interprétations prudentes du Banquet que nous a léguées la tradition philosophique, cette traduction inédite invite à une lecture renouvelée du dialogue : un Banquet parfois extravagant, à l'image de son objet, d'une richesse stylistique exubérante, souvent cru dans son langage, foisonnant enfin dans sa recherche du bonheur véritable.

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