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Philebus

Philebus

Jowett, Benjamin
Plato

Paperback

PhilosophyAncient Greece

ISBN10: 149100200X
ISBN13: 9781491002001
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Jul 16 2013
Pages: 118
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.28 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Philebus By Plato Greek Classics Translated by Benjamin Jowett The Philebus (occasionally given as Philebos), 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, the other speakers are Philebus and Protarchus. But Philebus, who wants to defend the life of pleasure, hedonism, which Socrates describes as the life of an oyster, hardly participates, and his position has to be defended by Protarchus, who has learnt argumentation from Sophists. Manuscripts of the work give it the subtitle peri hedones, ethikos indicating that it is concerning pleasure, and that it is a work about ethics, or in other words the question of the best way of life. However there are large parts in the dialogue that deal with dialectics and ontology but have nothing to do with pleasure and ethics, or if so, only indirectly.

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