Author:
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Keywords: gorgias
Number of Pages: 158
Published: 2004-06-30
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 1419122134
ISBN-13: 9781419122132
SOCRATES: Very good, Callicles; but will he answer our questions? for I want to hear from him what is the nature of his art, and what it is which he professes and teaches; he may, as you (Chaerephon) suggest, defer the exhibition to some other time.
Author: Plato
Publisher: Hackett Pub Co
Keywords: gorgias
Number of Pages: 132
Published: 1986-12-01
List price: $8.95
ISBN-10: 0872200167
ISBN-13: 9780872200166
Taking the form of a dialogue among Socrates, Gorgias, Polus, and Callicles, the Gorgias debates crucial questions about the nature of government. While the aspiring politician Callicles propounds the view that might is right, and the rhetorician Gorgias argues that oratory and the power to persuade represent "the greatest good," Socrates insists on the duty of politicians to consider the welfare of their citizensa duty he believed had been dishonored in the Athens of his time. The dialogue offers fascinating insights into how classical Athens was governed and creates a theoretical framework
Author: Plato
Publisher: Watchmaker Publishing
Keywords: gorgias
Number of Pages: 124
Published: 2010-01-15
List price: $3.99
ISBN-10: 1603862943
ISBN-13: 9781603862943
An unabridged edition with introduction for study: Plato can do with words just as he pleases; to him they are indeed ’more plastic than wax’ (Republic). We are in the habit of opposing speech and writing, poetry and prose. But he has discovered a use of language in which they are united; which gives a fitting expression to the highest truths; and in which the trifles of courtesy and the familiarities of daily life are not overlooked.
Author: Plato
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Keywords: editions, paperback, agora, gorgias
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 1998-09
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 0801485274
ISBN-13: 9780801485275
With a masterful sense of the place of rhetoric in both thought and practice and an ear attuned to the clarity, natural simplicity, and charm of Plato’s Greek prose, James H. Nichols, Jr., offers a precise yet unusually readable translation of one of the great Platonic dialogues on rhetoric. The Gorgias presents an intransigent argument that justice is superior to injustice--to the extent that suffering an injustice is preferable to committing an unjust act. The dialogue contains some of Plato’s most significant and famous discussions of major political themes, an
Author: Plato
Publisher: Dover Publications
Keywords: editions, thrift, dover, timaeus, gorgias
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2003-07-15
List price: $3.00
ISBN-10: 0486427595
ISBN-13: 9780486427591
Author: Sebastian P. Brock
Publisher: Gorgias Press
Keywords: handbooks, gorgias, tradition, syriac, bible
Number of Pages: 178
Published: 2006-12-20
List price: $38.00
ISBN-10: 1593333005
ISBN-13: 9781593333003
An excellent introduction to the Syriac Bible and its usage in the Syriac tradition. Brock gives an outline of all the Syriac versions of the Old and New Testaments, with chapters on the usage of the Bible, biblical commentaries and liturgical use of the scriptures.
Author: C. E. Hammond
Publisher: Gorgias Pr Llc
Keywords: theological, library, gorgias, east, liturgies, ancient
Number of Pages: 1183
Published: 2006-10-17
List price: $208.75
ISBN-10: 1593335016
ISBN-13: 9781593335014
