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    Plato's Greater Hippias
    Plato's Greater Hippias
    Plato's Greater Hippias
    Audiobook1 hour

    Plato's Greater Hippias

    Written by Plato

    Narrated by Ray Childs

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    Hippias of Elis travels throughout the Greek world practicing and teaching the art of making beautiful speeches. On a rare visit to Athens, he meets Socrates, who questions him about the nature of his art. Socrates is especially curious about how Hippias would define beauty. They agree that beauty makes all beautiful things beautiful, but when Socrates presses him to say precisely what he means, Hippias is unable to deliver such a definition. The more Socrates probes, the more absurd the responses from Hippias become.





    This is one of Plato's best comedies and one of his finest efforts at posing the philosophical problem of the difference between particular things and universal qualities.





    © Agora Publications
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAB Publishing
    Release dateSep 5, 2016
    ISBN9781518933837
    Plato's Greater Hippias
    Author

    Plato

    Plato (aprox. 424-327 BC), a student of Socrates and the teacher of Aristotle, is commonly regarded as the centermost figure of Western philosophy. During the Classical period of Ancient Greece he was based in Athens where he founded his Academy and created the Platonist school of thought. His works are among the most influential in Western history, commanding interest and challenging readers of every era and background since they were composed.

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    • 5/5
      Great talk about what is beauty. Leaves you thinking for a while