Edited with translation by L.G. Westerink. Small 4to. Red cloth with gilt lettering. xxii, 148pp, (6pp ads). Fine. Pristine revised third edition of this 1959 text, comments by the 6th century "last of the Athenian Neoplatonists" on the Socratic dialogue of Plato that debates whether knowledge or pleasure should be the goal of a happy life. Text in English and Greek. Volume IV in the "Platonic Texts and Translations" series.

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Title

Lectures on the Philebus

Publisher

The Prometheus Trust, Dilton Marsh, U.K.

Publication Date

2010

Language

English

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1898910480

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9781898910480

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Hardcover

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3rd Edition

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Damascius’ Lectures on the Philebus deals with some of the important insights explored by the late Platonic writers, concerning the dialectical system, the relation of the One to the Many, and of Pleasure to Intelligence, the Bound and the Infinite and their mixture, the nature of the Good, and so on.

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