Plato, the Founder of Philosophy as Dialectic |
Contents
Section One The Dialectical Concept of Nature | 3 |
Section Two Sophists Socrates and Plato | 26 |
Section Three Plato the Man and His Life | 47 |
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absolute abstract activity actual aesthetic appearance aspects beauty become beginning better body called cause common concept concrete criticism death desires dialectical dialogue divine empirical equally essential eternal ethical evil existence experience expression finite follow functions given gods Greek ground hand harmony Hegel human idea ideal identical immortal individual infinite Italy kind knowledge learned limited living logical material mathematical matter mean measure merely mind moral movement moving myth nature negative never object ontological opposites organic participates person Phaidros philosophy physical Plato pleasure political position possible practical present principle problem question rational reality reason reflection relation relative religion says sciences scientific sense situation Socrates Sophist soul speech symbol things thought Timaios tion true truth turn ultimate understand unity universal values visible vision vital whole wisdom