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Hippias Major
Author | : Plató |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 38 |
Release | : 2015-07-20 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781515146100 |
Hippias Major (or What is Beauty? or Greater Hippias, to distinguish it from the Hippias Minor, which has the same chief character) is one of the dialogues of Plato. It belongs to the Early Dialogues, written while the author was still young. Its precise date is uncertain, although a date of c. 390 BCE has been suggested; its authenticity has been doubted. In the Hippias Major, Socrates and Hippias set out to find a definition for "beauty," but are destined to fail due to their inability to formulate an answer which encompasses the entire concept. The actual Greek term that is used in the dialogue often means fine or noble as well as beautiful. For this reason, translators such as Paul Woodruff typically translate the term as "the Fine" (things) instead of "Beauty." As in Charmides, Lysis and Euthyphro, Hippias Major has an "anatreptic" purpose, that is, the result of the dialogue is to defeat commonly held opinions, without necessarily offering a resolution. The concept of something good in and of itself (if only obliquely) makes its first appearance in this work. The dialogue can be read as much as a serious philosophical work as a light satirical comedy with two actors. The astuteness of Socrates in taking refuge under the authority of a supposed third protagonist in order to direct biting criticism at Hippias, endows the dialogue with humour.
Hippias Major
Author | : Ivor Ludlam |
Publisher | : CUP Archive |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : |
"A slightly modified and extended version of an M.A. thesis accepted by Tel Aviv University in 1986"--P. [9].
Two Comic Dialogues
Author | : Plato |
Publisher | : Hackett Publishing |
Total Pages | : 100 |
Release | : 1983-01-01 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780915145775 |
Together these two dialogues contain Plato's most important work on poetry and beauty.
Plato's Hippias major
Author | : Plato |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 76 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : |
Bryn Mawr Commentaries provide clear, concise, accurate, and consistent support for students making the transition from introductory and intermediate texts to the direct experience of ancient Greek and Latin literature. They assume that the student will know the basics of grammar and vocabulary and then provide the specific grammatical and lexical notes that a student requires to begin the task of interpretation.
Early Socratic Dialogues
Author | : Emlyn-Jones Chris |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 2005-06-30 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0141914076 |
Rich in drama and humour, they include the controversial Ion, a debate on poetic inspiration; Laches, in which Socrates seeks to define bravery; and Euthydemus, which considers the relationship between philosophy and politics. Together, these dialogues provide a definitive portrait of the real Socrates and raise issues still keenly debated by philosophers, forming an incisive overview of Plato's philosophy.
Socrates and the Sophists
Author | : Plato |
Publisher | : Hackett Publishing |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 2012-07-01 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1585105058 |
This is an English translation of four of Plato’s dialogue (Protagoras, Euthydemus, Hippias Major, and Cratylus) that explores the topic of sophistry and philosophy, a key concept at the source of Western thought. Includes notes and an introductory essay. Focus Philosophical Library translations are close to and are non-interpretative of the original text, with the notes and a glossary intending to provide the reader with some sense of the terms and the concepts as they were understood by Plato’s immediate audience.