Plato and Platonism
By: Walter Pater
3.93
Format: 180 pages, Kindle Edition
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1. To the Lighthouse
By: Virginia Woolf
3.80
Format: 209 pages, Paperback
The serene and maternal Mrs. Ramsay, the tragic yet absurd Mr. Ramsay, and their children and assor… read more
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"I have had my vision."-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
"[...] there was only the sound of the sea."-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
"Well, we must wait for the future to show."-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
"The very stone one kicks with one's boot will outlast Shakespeare."-Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
2. Culture and Anarchy
By: Matthew Arnold , Jane Garnett
3.42
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Matthew Arnold's famous series of essays, which were first published in book form under the title C… read more
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"The fewer there are who follow the way to perfection, the harder that way is to find."-Matthew Arnold, Culture and Anarchy
"Let me go back for a moment to Bishop Wilson, who says:−−'First, never go against the best light you have; secondly, take care that your light be not darkness."-Matthew Arnold, Culture and Anarchy
"One has often wondered whether upon the whole earth there is anything so unintelligent, so unapt to perceive how the world is really going, as an ordinary young Englishman of our upper class"-Matthew Arnold, Culture and Anarchy
"Therefore, when we speak of ourselves as divided into Barbarians, Philistines, and Populace, we must be understood always to imply that within each of these classes there are a certain number of alie…"-Matthew Arnold, Culture and Anarchy
3. Tao Te Ching
By: Lao Tzu , Gia-Fu Feng , Jane English , Jacob Needleman , Toinette Lippe
4.30
Format: 107 pages, Paperback
A lucid translation of the well-known Taoist classic by a leading scholar-now in a Shambhala Pocket… read more
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"The heart that gives, gathers."-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
"Love is a decision - not an emotion!"-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
"When nothing is done, nothing is left undone."-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
"To understand the limitation of things, desire them."-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
4. Poetics
By: Aristotle , Malcolm Heath
3.59
Format: None pages, Paperback
'The plot is the source and the soul of tragedy' In his near-contemporary account of Greek tragedy,… read more
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5. Critias
By: Plato , Benjamin Jowett
3.78
Format: 479 pages,
Plato (428/427 BC-348/347 BC), whose original name was Aristocles, was an ancient Greek philosopher… read more
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6. Principia Ethica
By: George Edward Moore
4.50
Format: 122 pages, Paperback
First published in 1903, this volume revolutionized philosophy and forever altered the direction of… read more
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7. Crito
By: Plato , Chris Emlyn-Jones
5.00
Format: 160 pages, paper
Plato's Socrates, in prison and being urged to flee execution, raises in acute form, and for the fi… read more
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8. Phaedo
By: Plato , David Gallop , R.D. Archer-Hind
3.77
Format: 67 pages, Paperback
The Phaedois acknowledged to be one of Plato's masterpieces, showing him both as a philosopher and … read more
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9. Theaetetus
By: Plato , Robin Waterfield
4.20
Format: 228 pages, Paperback
Set immediately prior to the trial and execution of Socrates in 399 BC, Theaetetus shows the great … read more
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11. The Art of Happiness
By: Epicurus , George K. Strodach
4.19
Format: 294 pages, ebook
New to Penguin Classics and the perfect companion volume to bestselling author Daniel Klein's new b… read more
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12. The Trial and Death of Socrates
By: Plato , G.M.A. Grube , John M. Cooper
3.63
Format: 224 pages,
The third edition of The Trial and Death of Socratespresents G. M. A. Grube's distinguished transla… read more
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13. Phaedrus
By: Plato , Paul Woodruff , Alexander Nehamas , Albert A. Anderson
3.50
Format: 270 pages, Paperback
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14. The Statesman
By: Plato , Robin Waterfield , Julia Annas
4.20
Format: None pages, Hardcover
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15. Protagoras/Meno
By: Plato , Lesley Brown , None
3.44
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
Exploring the question of what exactly makes good people good, Protagoras and Meno are two of the m… read more
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16. Proust
By: Samuel Beckett
3.88
Format: None pages, Paperback
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17. Sophist
By: Plato , Nicholas P. White
3.58
Format: None pages, Paperback
A fluent and accurate new translation of the dialogue that, of all Plato's works, has seemed to spe… read more
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18. Euthyphro
By: Plato , Chris Emlyn-Jones
4.15
Format: None pages, Paperback
Awaiting his trial on charges of impiety and heresy, Socrates encounters Euthyphro, a self-proclaim… read more
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19. The Nicomachean Ethics
By: Aristotle , Jonathan Barnes , None , Hugh Tredennick
3.99
Format: 329 pages, Paperback
‘One swallow does not make a summer; neither does one day. Similarly neither can one day, or a brie… read more
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"Philosophy can make people sick."-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics
"A man without regrets cannot be cured."-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics
"Freedom is obedience to self-formulated rules."-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics
"The beginning seems to be more than half of the whole."-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics
20. De Anima
By: Aristotle , Hugh Lawson-Tancred
2.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
'The soul is, so to speak, the first principle of living things. We seek to contemplate and know it… read more
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22. Hippias Major
By: Plato , Paul Woodruff
4.04
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In the Hippias Major, Socrates and Hippias set out to find a definition for "beauty", but are desti… read more
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23. Euthydemus
By: Plato , Rosamond Kent Sprague
3.83
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
"This is the best translation available of a lively and challenging dialogue, which sets before the… read more
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24. The Symposium
By: Plato , Christopher Gill
4.09
Format: 90 pages, Paperback
A fascinating discussion on sex, gender, and human instincts, as relevant today as ever. In the … read more
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"The truth about eros is terrifying."-Plato, The Symposium
"At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet"-Plato, The Symposium
"Ali,srecnice moj,mozda sam ja nista,a ti to ne primecujes."-Plato, The Symposium
"καὶ οὗτος ἄρα καὶ ἄλλος πᾶς ὁ ἐπιθυμῶν τοῦ μὴ ἐτοίμου ἐπιθυμεῖ"-Plato, The Symposium
25. The Portrait of a Lady
By: Henry James , Patricia Crick
3.79
Format: 797 pages, Paperback
When Isabel Archer, a beautiful, spirited American, is brought to Europe by her wealthy Aunt Touche… read more
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"She has only one fault; too many ideas."-Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
"If one is strong, one loves the more strongly."-Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
"It's not my fate to give up--I know it can't be."-Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
"The finer natures were those that shone at the larger times."-Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
26. Laches
By: Plato
4.00
Format: None pages,
There is a well-known saying that the whole of Western Philosophy is footnotes of Plato. This is be… read more
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27. The Discourses
By: Epictetus
4.17
Format: 427 pages, Paperback
For centuries, Stoicism was virtually the unofficial religion of the Roman world The stress on endu… read more
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28. Timaeus/Critias
By: Plato , Desmond Lee
3.73
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
Taking the form of dialogues between Socrates, Timaeus, Critias and Hermocrates, these two works ar… read more
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29. Apology
By: Plato , James J. Helm
4.20
Format: 127 pages, Paperback
The Apology of Socrates is Plato's version of the speech given by Socrates as he unsuccessfully def… read more
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"Kötülük ölümden daha hızlı koşar."-Plato, Apology
"Loin de parler quand on me paie, et de me taire quand on me donne rien."-Plato, Apology
"As long as I draw breath and am able, I won't give up practicing philosophy."-Plato, Apology
"Athenian men, I respect and love you, but I shall obey the god rather than you..."-Plato, Apology
30. Philebus
By: Plato
3.87
Format: 152 pages, Paperback
The dialogue discussing the relative merits of lives based on pleasure and intelligence is acccompa… read more
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31. Plato and Platonism
By: Walter Pater
3.93
Format: 180 pages, Kindle Edition
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