Dialogi. Tom I

by Plato, Platón

Ze Wstępu redakcji:
(...) Nietrudno policzyć, że na przekładach Władysława Witwickiego wychowały się już w Polsce trzy pokolenia. Pokolenia nie tylko filozofów i uczonych humanistów, ale tak zwanych zwykłych czytelników. „To, że Sokrates nie jest dziś w Polsce papierowym wzorem licznych cnót, ale żywym, bliskim człowiekiem, którego tragedia wzrusza, a nauka porywa, to zawdzięcza Władysławowi Witwickiemu, jego przekładom [...]. Nie przepadło nic z uroku pism Platona, zachowane zostały wiernie rytm i tempo dialogów, dramatyzm czy komizm sytuacji. Żywi ludzie mówią o sprawach nie mniej żywych dziś niż przed 2000 lat; o miłości, przyjaźni, państwie, sprawiedliwości, męstwie, panowaniu nad sobą” - pisała we wspomnieniu o Władysławie Witwickim Izydora Dąmbska.

Tom I zawiera dialogi: Ion, Charmides, Lizys, Hippiasz Mniejszy, Hippiasz Większy, Laches, Protagoras, Gorgiasz, Menon, Eutyfron, Obrona Sokratesa, Kriton, Fedon.

Genres: Philosophy

715 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1999

About the author

Plato (Greek: Πλάτων), born Aristocles (c. 427 – 348 BC), was an ancient Greek philosopher of the Classical period who is considered a foundational thinker in Western philosophy and an innovator of the written dialogue and dialectic forms. He raised problems for what became all the major areas of both theoretical philosophy and practical philosophy, and was the founder of the Platonic Academy, a philosophical school in Athens where Plato taught the doctrines that would later become known as Platonism.
Plato's most famous contribution is the theory of forms (or ideas), which has been interpreted as advancing a solution to what is now known as the problem of universals. He was decisively influenced by the pre-Socratic thinkers Pythagoras, Heraclitus, and Parmenides, although much of what is known about them is derived from Plato himself.
Along with his teacher Socrates, and Aristotle, his student, Plato is a central figure in the history of philosophy. Plato's entire body of work is believed to have survived intact for over 2,400 years—unlike that of nearly all of his contemporaries. Although their popularity has fluctuated, they have consistently been read and studied through the ages. Through Neoplatonism, he also greatly influenced both Christian and Islamic philosophy. In modern times, Alfred North Whitehead famously said: "the safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato."

Reviews

[Matt Mayevsky · Rating 5 out of 5]

Zbiór dialogów genialnego filozofa w interpretacji genialnego tłumacza. Wyborne przypisy. Żal wielki, że nie znam starożytnej greki.