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This translation by Dorothea Frede of Plato's dialogue on the nature of pleasure and its relation to thought and knowledge achieves a high standard of readability and fidelity to the Greek text. The volume includes a cogent introduction, notes, and comprehensive bibliography... Read Full Overview

Taking the form of a discussion between the hedonist Philebus, his na ve disciple Protarchus and Socrates, Philebus is a compelling consideration of the popular belief that pleasure is the greatest attainable good. Here, Socrates speculates on the differing intensities of both... Read Full Overview

In The Tragedy and Comedy of Life, Seth Benardete focuses on the idea of the good in what is widely regarded as one of Plato's most challenging and complex dialogues, the Philebus. Traditionally the Philebus is interpreted as affirming the doctrine that... Read Full Overview

This translation with introduction and commentary of Plato's Philebus was originally issued under the title Plato's Examination of Pleasure and first reprinted as Plato's Philebus. This dialogue, generally agreed to be one of Plato's latest and most sophisticated, analyses in... Read Full Overview

Philebus, is one of the surviving Socratic dialogues written in the 4th century BC by Plato. Apart from Socrates the other speakers are Philebus and Protarchus.Any profits made from the sale of this book will go towards supporting the Freeriver Community project, a project that... Read Full Overview

Philebus by Plato and translated with an introduction by Benjamin Jowett. A Socratic Dialogue. The Philebus, is one of the surviving Socratic dialogues written in the 4th century BC by the ancient Greek philosopher Plato. Apart from Socrates, the primary speaker in Philebus,... Read Full Overview

Excerpt from The Philebus of Plato: Translated, With Brief Explanatory Notes

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This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely... Read Full Overview

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely... Read Full Overview

The Philebus is the only Platonic dialogue that takes as its central theme the fundamental Socratic question of the good, understood as that which makes for the best or happiest life. It offers an extended psychological and epistemological investigation of such topics as sensation,... Read Full Overview

Qu'est-ce que le bien? A cette question, qui anime le Socrate platonicien depuis les premiers dialogues, Platon a consacre l'un de ses derniers textes, et l'un des plus complexes: le Philebe. Mais la reponse qu'il propose desarconne les interpretes: loin des envolees de la Republique,... Read Full Overview

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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 philosophical.

"Filebo o del placer", de Plat n. Plat n fue un Fil sofo griego, alumno de S crates y maestro de Arist teles (427 adC - 347 adC)

est un dialogue de Platon du genre thique, consid r comme l'avant-dernier nous tant parvenu, avant Les Lois. Ce dialogue utilise nombre d l ments parmi les dialogues de vieillesse de Platon: la r flexion sur L'Un et le Multiple du Parm nide; une forme, plus simple et invers... Read Full Overview

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely... Read Full Overview

Plato (428/427 or 424/423 - 348/347 BC) was an Athenian philosopher during the Classical period in Ancient Greece, founder of the Platonist school of thought and the Academy, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world. He is widely considered one of the most... Read Full Overview

Platon: Philebos Edition Holzinger. Taschenbuch Berliner Ausgabe, 2017, 4. Auflage Durchgesehener Neusatz mit einer Biographie des Autors bearbeitet und eingerichtet von Michael Holzinger Entstanden nach 360 v. Chr. Erstdruck (in lateinischer bersetzung durch Marsilio Ficino)... Read Full Overview