In this dialogue Socrates is portrayed by Plato as the patient and virtuous citizen who is willing to give his life in obedience to the laws of the State. Crito, an old friend of Socrates, visits him with a plan to escape from the prison where he is awaiting the execution of his sentence. Socrates maintaining in death the principles he has held during his life, refuses to do the least evil in order to avoid the greatest.This edition of The Apology is the translation into English fr...

In the final moments of his life, Socrates discusses with a group of friends the nature of death and the immortality of the soul. Based on previous philosophies he argues that the circle of nature is not complete unless the living come from the dead as well as pass to them. His composure demonstrates his conviction that no evil can happen to a good man, in life or death, and that it is his dead body and not him they will bury.This edition of The Apology is the translation into Engl...

Discourses in praise of Eros, translated as love, are spoken by Socrates and other Athenians at a banquet hosted by Agathon. Love is seen as an aspect of the divine running through all nature and being; and regarded as the source of all creation, virtue and wisdom.This edition of The Apology is the translation into English from the original Greek by Professor Benjamin Jowett from the third edition of The Dialogues of Plato published in five volumes by Oxford University Press in 189...

This dialogue is Plato’s treatise on natural philosophy. Integrating Pre-Socratic thought with his own theory of ideas and metaphysics, he attempts to bring everything that exists under reason; from the Cosmos to living creatures to human diseases. He sees everything created as product of necessity, having a cause and tending towards an end; the Universe as one whole being having a soul, and everything that exists as a work of design intelligible to the human mind.This edition of T...

Theaetetus, a young disciple of the famous geometrician Theodorus, is brought back to Athens by the army deadly wounded from the battle of Corinth. As he is approaching death he turns to philosophy, with the purpose of making the transition from mathematics to metaphysics. Socrates, who has an evident interest in Theaetetus, discusses with him about the nature of knowledge and how to attain it.This edition of The Apology is the translation into English from the original Greek by Pr...

In "Some Remarks on Logical Form," Ludwig Wittgenstein revisits and substantially qualifies the austere picture of language developed in the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. The essay examines the relation between propositions, elementary propositions, and the structures of reality they represent, with particular attention to the difficulty of analyzing systems of color exclusion and other forms of incompatibility. Its compressed, argumentative prose retains the Tractatus's architectonic am...

"Phaedrus" is a philosophical dialogue written by Plato that explores the nature of love, the power of rhetoric, and the relationship between speech and truth. The book takes its name from one of the main characters, Phaedrus, who is a young and handsome Athenian. The dialogue concludes with a discussion about the nature of speech and writing, and the relationship between the two. Socrates argues that true knowledge and wisdom can only be found in the living word, rather than in the writte...

"A Treatise on Government" is considered to be one of Aristotle's best and most informative works, it has influenced science, religion and philosophy for more than 200 years. Aristotle could be thought of as the father of logical thought and with critical evaluation to subjects he does not take at face value. This book features complete texts of several of Aristotle's best works and is a must for any student of Government or Philosophy.

Along with writing comedic and dramatic plays, William Shakespeare was also a master poet. Using the sonnet structure (three quatrains and a final couplet composed in iambic pentameter), he composed 154 poems covering timeless themes of love, beauty, and mortality. The poems' subjects—the Fair Youth, the Dark Lady, and the Rival Poet—have become nearly as famous as the sonnets themselves. While not the first to write poems in sonnet form, Shakespeare's sonnets are considered the most influ...

Step into the incisive philosophical dialogue of Euthyphro, the brilliant work by Plato, where questions of morality, piety, and the nature of virtue are explored with enduring clarity. This audiobook brings to life the conversation between Socrates and Euthyphro, inviting listeners into a deep examination of what it truly means to live rightly.Through the narration, you will witness Socrates’ probing questions as he challenges Euthyphro’s assumpti...

The Game of Logic by Lewis Carroll. This book has all the illustrations of the original.The Game of Logic, described by Lewis Carroll—author of Alice in Wonderland—in 1887 consists of discussing the meaning of propositions like "Some fresh cakes are sweet," and is an instructive introduction to the concepts of logic. The game takes place in a world divided into four quadrants. In the northwest quadrant, the cakes are fresh and sweet, in the northeast, they are fresh and not-sweet, ...

“Childe Harold's Pilgrimage” is a lengthy narrative poem written by the English poet Lord Byron, and was published between 1812 and 1818. The poem describes the travels and thoughts of two characters who, disillusioned with a life of idleness and pleasure, seek a new life in foreign lands; altogether, can be interpreted as the expression of the melancholy and disillusionment experienced by a generation exhausted of wars of later age to the French Revolution and the Napoleonic era.As...