4 résultats pour "life"
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Encyclopedia of Philosophy: THE CRito of Plato
THE CRito of Plato The Crito is a much easier dialogue to read. Socrates is now in prison, waiting for the execution of his sentence. A number of his friends, led by Crito, have devised a plan for him to escape and flee to Thessaly. The plan had a good chance of success, but Socrates would have no part in it. Life was only worth striving for if it was a good life; and life purchased by disobedience to the laws was not a life worth living. Even if he has been wronged, he should not render evil fo...
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Aurobindo Ghose
Aurobindo Ghose (1872-1950) Aurobindo Ghose was a leading Indian nationalist at the beginning of the twentieth century who became a yogin and spiritual leader as well as a prolific writer (in English) on mysticism, crafting a mystic philosophy of Brahman (the Absolute or God). Aurobindo fashioned an entire worldview, a system intended to reflect both science and religion and to integrate several concerns of philosophy - epistemology, ontology, psychology, ethics - into a single vision. Of partic...
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Discovering the author’s life and times MARGARET ATWOOD
Discovering the author’s life and times MARGARET ATWOOD Margaret Atwood was born in Ottawa, Canada, in 1939. Her father was an entomologist, and Atwood spent part of her early years in the bush of North Quebec, where her father studied insects. She studied English at the University of Toronto, and then Radcliffe College and Harvard in the U.S.A. She is Canada’s most eminent novelist and poet, and also writes short stories, critical studies, screenplays, radio scripts, graphic novels and...
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Encyclopedia of Philosophy: THE PHAEDo of Plato
THE PHAEDo The dialogue with which Plato concludes his account of Socrates' last days is called the Phaedo, after the name of the narrator, a citizen of Parmenides' city of Elea, who claims, with his friends Simmias and Cebes, to have been present with Socrates at his death. The drama begins as news arrives that the sacred ship has returned from Delos, which brings to an end the stay of execution. Socrates' chains are removed, and he is allowed a final visit from his weeping wife Xanthippe with...