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(0)G. Lowes Dickinson
Author
Publisher
Methuen & co., ltd
Pub. Date
[1929]
Language
English
Description
The world examined by the ancient Greek philosophers and poets was distinctly different from our own. And that context, the author argues, has been missing from later evaluations of their work. Here is the Greek view of life in the classical age-perspectives on the state, the individual, religion, and art-as seen by writers such as Aristotle, Euripides, Homer, Plato, and Sophocles, among many others.
Author
Language
English
Description
Presents an imagined account of conversation between Plato and Philalethes "A Modern Young Man". In the first part, political and social institutions are considered and property, forms of government, socialism, the control of population, war and education, are discussed. The second part examines the idea of real Goods including the concepts of truth, art and love. In this work, the author sees Plato reaffirming his belief that real Goods come from...