Republic is the central work of the Western world's most famous philosopher.Essentially an inquiry into morality, Republic also contains crucial arguments and insights into many other areas of philosophy.It is also a literary masterpiece: the philosophy is presented for the most part for the ordinary reader, who is carried along by the wit and intensity of the dialogue and by Plato's unforgettable images of the human condition.This new, lucid translation by Robin Waterfield is complemented by full explanatory notes and an up-to-date critical introcuduction.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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"One of the basic books of the European mind and culture, now freshly and readably rendered by Sterling and Scott. I envy the reader who sits in on these conversations for the first time, and with such a readable text."-John Ciardi
"This new version of Plato's Republic by Sterling and Scott is founded on a sensitively accurate and highly readable fusion of form and content, style, and substance. Plato emerges, as he should, as both thinker and philosophical poet-something that cannot be said of competing versions."-William Arrowsmith, Emory University--This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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"Robin Waterfield has produced an idiomatic, lively, and thoroughly up-to-date Englishing of Plato's Republic....Waterfield...succeeds beautifully...in making engaging English out of Plato's Greek. For this teachers of Greek philosophy owe him gratitude."--Ancient Philosophy
"Waterfield's translation is certainly the best of the Republic available.It is accurate and informed by deep philosophical understanding of the text; unlike other translations it combines these virtues with an impressive ability to render Plato into English that is as
| 出版社 | Dover Publications Inc. |
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| 作者 | 柏拉图 (Plato) |