Plato was the first Western philosopher to apply philosophy to politics. His ideas on, for example, the nature and value of justice, and the relationship between justice and politics, have been extraordinarily influential. „The Republic” of Plato is the longest of his works with the exception of the „Laws”, and is certainly the greatest of them. Presented as a series of dialogue between Socrates and Plato’s brothers Adeimantus and Glaucon, in eleven parts Plato step by step forms his ideal...

L’Apologie de Socrate est un dialogue socratique de Platon.Dans l’Apologie de Socrate, Platon rapporte les plaidoyers de Socrate lors de son procès en -399 à Athènes qui déboucha sur sa condamnation à mort. La défense se déroule en trois parties, toutes en lien direct avec la mort. Socrate se défend devant les juges, mais aussi devant toute la cité d’Athènes (composant le Tribunal de la Cité). Il répond aux trois chefs d’accusation déposés contre lui : corruption de la jeunesse, no...

Le Banquet est un texte de Platon écrit aux environs de 380 av. J.-C. Il est constitué principalement d’une longue série de discours portant sur la nature et les qualités de l’amour. Tò sumpósion en grec est traduit traditionnellement par Le Banquet, terme désignant une réception, une fête mondaine.Dans Le Banquet, Platon ne rapporte pas la scène en tant que narrateur, et se sert d'un intermédiaire, Apollodore ; il raconte comment Apollodore vient à faire le récit de cette soirée e...

Les contributions de cet ouvrage collectif envisagent les modifications de l’espace et l’évolution de leur perception dans l’aire méditerranéenne. Elles adoptent une perspective résolument inter- et pluridisciplinaire, privilégiant des approches aussi bien diachroniques que synchroniques autour de l’espace méditerranéen dans son acception la plus large.Ces approches interdisciplinaires posent un regard croisé sur ces inventions ou ré- inventions de l’espace : elles examinent les mu...

Socrates is on trial for his life. He is charged with impiety and corrupting young people. He presents his own defense, explaining why he has devoted his life to challenging the most powerful and important people in the Greek world. The reason is that rich and famous politicians, priests, poets, and a host of others pretend to know what is good, true, holy, and beautiful, but when Socrates questions them they are shown to be foolish rather than wise.

The dramatic nature of Plato's dialogues is delightfully evident in the "Symposium." The marriage between character and thought bursts forth as the guests gather at Agathon's house to celebrate the success of his first tragedy. With wit and insight, they each present their ideas about love — from Erixymachus's scientific naturalism to Aristophanes' comic fantasy. The unexpected arrival of Alcibiades breaks the spell cast by Diotima's ethereal climb up the staircase of love to beauty itself...

Socrates is in prison, sentenced to die when the sun sets. In this final conversation, he asks what will become of him once he drinks the poison prescribed for his execution. Socrates and his friends examine several arguments designed to prove that the soul is immortal. This quest leads him to the broader topic of the nature of mind and its connection not only to human existence but also to the cosmos itself. What could be a better way to pass the time between now and the sunset?

L’Ion est un dialogue de Platon, traîtant du genre critique. Il appartient au groupe des dialogues dits socratiques, que l'on considère habituellement comme des compositions de jeunesse. La date de composition exacte reste incertaine. L'Ion s'interroge sur la poésie et sur la nature de la source où les poètes puisent leur talent. Platon se demande si la poésie est un art véritable ou une question d'inspiration, cherchant à définir l'art du poète et du rhapsode. C'est un thème qui n'est pas...

This book presents peer-reviewed and selected papers of the International Youth Conference on Electronics, Telecommunications, and Information Technologies (YETI-2021), held in Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, St. Petersburg, on April 22–23, 2021. For the third time around, the conference brings together students and early career scientists, serving to disseminate the current trends and advances in electronics, telecommunications, optical, and information technologies...

Olonkho is the general name for the entire Yakut heroic epic that consists of many long legends – one of the longest being ‘Nurgun Botur the Swift’ consisting of some 36,000 lines of verse, published here. Like Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, the Finnish Kalevala, the Buryat Geser, and the Kirghiz Manas, the Yakut Olonkho is an epic of a very ancient origin dating back to the period – possibly as early as the eighth or ninth centuries – when the ancestors of the present-day Yakut peoples lived ...

This volume provides an overview and tour (with many interesting stops along the way) of Devonian and Ordovician intraplate magmatism and associated sedimentary rocks and tectonics in the regions of Kuznetsk Alatau, Minusinsk Basin and Khakassia in western Siberia. All chapters were written by experts, many of which have been studying these regions for decades. The first book to present and review this information in English for an international audience, it includes both overviews of the ...

This book explores the issue of private sector over-indebtedness following the recent financial crisis. It addresses the various challenges for policymakers, investors and economic agents affected by applied remedial policies as the private non-financial sector in Europe continues to face increased challenges in servicing its debt, with the problem mainly concentrated in several countries in the EU periphery and Eastern Europe. Chapters from expert contributors address reduced investment a...