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Philebus — Plato

Philebus

Plato

  • Essays
  • Book language: English
  • 126 pages

Philebus is one of Plato's later philosophical dialogues, with Socrates examining pleasure and knowledge as candidates for the good life. It is worth listening for its rigorous dialectic and its exploration of how reason and enjoyment might be combined.

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PHILEBUS
By Plato
Translated by Benjamin Jowett
Contents
INTRODUCTION AND ANALYSIS.
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. In the development of
abstract thought great advances have been made on the
Protagoras or the Phaedrus, and even on the Republic. But
there is a corresponding diminution of artistic skill, a
want of character in the persons, a laboured march in the

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Contents

  1. PHILEBUS
  2. Translated by Benjamin Jowett
  3. Contents
  4. INTRODUCTION AND ANALYSIS.
  5. PHILEBUS
  6. THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG™ LICENSE

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