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Tyranny and Wisdom

Tyranny and Wisdom

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In the Ancient world, one began the study of Plato with two dialogues: the Greater Alcibiades and the Gorgias, which depict Socrates' first conversations with two famous men: Alcibiades, the Athenian statesman, general, and traitor-and the great sophist Gorgias, who taught ambitious young men like Alcibiades how to rise as their society declined around them.
Greg Johnson's Tyranny & Wisdom leads you carefully through these dialogues and demonstrates that the Ancients were right: together, they are an excellent introduction to Plato. Here we encounter Plato's most challenging ideas, threaded together by a highly dramatic conflict between two ways of life: the pursuit of power vs. the pursuit of wisdom.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
276
Release Date:
2025-10-20
Publication Date:
2025-10-20
Publisher:
Counter-Currents Publishing
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1642640603
ISBN13:
9781642640601
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
Weight:
452 g
Height:
152 cm
Width:
229 cm
Thickness:
16 cm
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