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A dialogue between Socrates and Meno probes the subject of ethics. Can goodness be taught? If it can, then we should be able to find teachers capable of instructing others about what is good and bad, right and wrong, or just and unjust. Socrates and Meno are unable to identify teachers of ethics, and we are left wondering how such knowledge could be acquired. To answer that puzzle, Socrates questions one of Meno’s servants in an attempt to show that we know fundamental ideas by recollecting them.

Laches, a general in the Athenian army, saw Socrates fight bravely in the battle of Delium. When he and Nicias, another general, are asked to explain the idea of courage, they are at a loss and words fail them. How does courage differ from thoughtless and reckless audacity? Can a lion be said to be courageous? What about small children who have little idea of the dangers they face? Should we call people courageous who do not know whether their bravery will produce good or bad consequences?

This simplistic and ingenious allegory from one of the fathers of Western philosophy casts light on society’s naiveté and ignorance.

In this fourth volume in The Masks of God series - Joseph Campbell’s major work of comparative mythology - the preeminent mythologist looks at the birth of the modern, individualistic mythology as it developed in Europe beginning in the 12th century AD up through the modernist art of the 20th century. The Masks of God is a four-volume study of world religion and myth that stands as one of Joseph Campbell’s masterworks.

The Greek word sumposion means a drinking party (a fact shamefully ignored by the organizers of modern symposia), and the party described in Plato's Symposium is one supposedly given in the year 416 BC by the playwright Agathon to celebrate his victory in the dramatic festival of the Lenaea. He has already given one party, the previous evening; this second party is for a select group of friends, and host and guests alike are feeling a little frail.

A compassionate, personal, and illuminating work of nonfiction that draws on the author's celebrated work as a director of socially conscious theater to connect listeners with the power of an ancient artistic tradition.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. The distilled common sense of antiquity, one line at a time — the Golden Verses of Pythagoras, the Delphic maxims, Cato's Distichs, and the Sentences of Publilius Syrus, gathered in one volume...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Les Lettres à Lucilius de Sénèque réunissent la correspondance philosophique du grand stoïcien romain à son ami Lucilius. À travers plus d'une centaine de lettres, Sénèque explore le temps, l'amitié, la mort, la vertu, la richesse, le désir...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. The teacher of Epictetus, exiled three times for philosophy. His surviving lectures are Stoicism at its most practical: food, family, exile, and how to live with both hands...

Teil 2 des Klassikers der stoischen Philosophie. Nach der Lesung der ersten 52 Briefe des 1. Teils findet mit dem hier vorliegenden 2. Teil die Lesung der Briefe an Lucilius nun ihre Fortsetzung. Auch in den hier zu hörenden Briefen 53 bis 84 widmet sich Seneca der tiefsinnigen Einführung seines Freundes und Schülers Lucilius in die Philosophie der Stoa. Im Zentrum der Briefe steht dabei die Tugend als das einzig wirklich anzustrebende Gut. Dieses Hörbuch vereint als 2. Teil der vierteiligen Hörbuchreihe „Seneca – Briefe an Lucilius" in vollständiger Lesung die Briefe 53 bis 84.

How Stoic principles can help us navigate the challenges of our divided, unstable world. Can the principles of Stoicism lead us to a peaceful, 'good' life? We are all going to die, so how do we live? A traumatised journalist is given a dream assignment - track down the mayor of a remote and...

Neste volume, Tiago Tranjan explora a tentativa humana de entender e exprimir o mundo: nossos argumentos só têm validade porque os interpretamos como válidos. Passa por autores clássicos, como Aristóteles, Tomás de Aquino e Ockham, até concluir com contemporâneos, como Frege e...

Neste volume, Alexandre Carrasco convida a mergulhar nas águas nunca rasas da dialética. Tomando Montaigne como treinador de largas braçadas, retorna a Heráclito, Parmênides, Platão e Aristóteles, até chegar a Kant, Hegel e Marx como...

Neste volume, Juvenal Savian Filho analisa as críticas e defesas da Religião, partindo da pergunta: Por que dedicar um livro à Religião em uma coleção de Filosofia? Elas não seriam contraditórias? Se não são, o que faz um...

Neste volume, Fernando Rey Puente enfrenta um dos enigmas mais instigantes da história da Filosofia: o tempo. Será ele apenas a cronometragem convencional de acontecimentos ou será uma experiência interna dos indivíduos? Coleção dirigida por...

Neste volume, Sílvia Faustino de Assis Saes apresenta três grandes modelos de investigação filosófica da linguagem: o modelo antigo, platônico-aristotélico; o modelo da Lógica Port-Royal, determinante para a Modernidade; o modelo de...

What Socrates’s greatest failure reveals about an ancient question: Can we teach our leaders to be better people? Is good character something that can be taught? In 430 BCE, Socrates set out to teach the vain, power-seeking Athenian statesman Alcibiades how to be a good person—and failed...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Des Devoirs est l'un des grands traités de morale de Cicéron, écrit pour son fils Marcus alors que l'auteur approchait la fin de sa vie. Dans ce dialogue adressé au jeune homme, Cicéron cherche à transmettre ce qu'il a de plus précieux : une...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. The other eyewitness. Before Plato turned him into a legend, Xenophon knew Socrates as a friend, and remembered a plainer, shrewder, more useful teacher. Memorabilia, Apology, and Symposium, fresh from the Greek...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Thirty comic sketches of people you already know: the flatterer, the cheapskate, the man who will not stop talking. Aristotle's successor invented the character study, and it is still funny. Fresh from the Greek...