This is a highly entertaining and charming work by Xenophon. In the backdrop of a party that is going wild, the work features Socrates though not many dialogues are spoken by him. The constant allusion to Plato's Symposium makes the work engrossing and hilarious.
Socrates was a classical Greek Athenian philosopher. Credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy, he is an enigmatic figure known chiefly through the accounts of later classical writers, especially the writings of his students Plato and Xenophon, and the plays of his contemporary Aristophanes.
Philosophy 101 by Socrates - An Introduction to Philosophy via Plato`s Apology
by Peter Kreeft
Philosophy means "the love of wisdom." Kreeft uses the dialogues of Socrates to help the reader grow in that love. He says that no master of the art of philosophizing has ever been more simple, clear, and accessible to beginners as has Socrates. He focuses on Plato's dialogues, the Apology of Socrates, as a lively example to imitate, and a model partner for the reader for dialogue. Kreeft calls it "the Magna Carta of philosophy," a timeless classic that is "a portable classroom."
Christopher Gill offers a new analysis of what is innovative in Hellenistic - especially Stoic and Epicurean - philosophical thinking about selfhood and personality. His wide-ranging discussion of Stoic and Epicurean ideas is illustrated by a more detailed examination of the Stoic theory of the passions and a new account of the history of this theory. His study also tackles issues about the historical study of selfhood and the relationship between philosophy and literature, especially the presen...
Historia de La Filosofia Antigua (Pensamiento Critico/Pensamiento Utopico, #32)
by Antonio Alegre Gorri
Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy, Volume 44 (Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy)
Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy is a volume of original articles on all aspects of ancient philosophy. The articles may be of substantial length, and include critical notices of major books. OSAP is now published twice yearly, in both hardback and paperback. 'The serial Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy (OSAP) is fairly regarded as the leading venue for publication in ancient philosophy. It is where one looks to find the state-of-the-art. That the serial, which presents itself more as...
Glosae Super Platonem (Studies and Texts)
by Paul Edward Dutton and St. Bernard
A Careful and Strict Enquiry Into the Modern Prevailing Notions of That Freedom of Will
Cosmic and Meta-Cosmic Theology in Aristotle's Lost Dialogues (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, #16)
by Bos
Oeuvres Completes d'Helvetius, Vol. 5 (Classic Reprint)
by Helvetius Helvetius
Theodicee Plotinienne, Theodicee Gnostique (Philosophia Antiqua, #57)
by Denis O'Brien
Plato on Democracy and Political Technē (Philosophia Antiqua)
by Anders Sorensen
Ways Into the Logic of Alexander of Aphrodisias (Philosophia Antiqua, #62)
by FLANNERY
Die Philosophie Der Griechen in Ihrer Geschichtlichen Entwicklung
by Eduard Zeller
