Plato in 90 Minutes - Paul Strathern torrent

Category: Lecture, Misc. Non-fiction
Language: English
Keywords: Philosophy Ancient History Plato
Written by Paul Strathern
Read by Robert Whitfield
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Listening Length: 1 hour and 13 minutes

In an age when philosophers had scarcely glimpsed the horizons of the mind, a boy named Aristocles decided to forgo his ambitions as a wrestler. Adopting the nickname Plato, he embarked instead on a life in philosophy. In 387 B.C. he founded the Academy, the world’s first university, and taught his students that all we see is not reality but merely a reproduction of the true source. And in his famous Republic he described the politics of “the highest form of state.”

In Plato in 90 Minutes, Paul Strathern offers a concise, expert account of Plato’s life and ideas and explains their influence on man’s struggle to understand his existence in the world.