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...

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...

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...

How did Caribbean rituals helped form new currents in the performing and visual arts of the United States? This book answers this question through an examination of the Caribbean-inspired dance creations of dancer/choreographer Katherine Dunham and the experimental films of avant-garde filmmaker Maya Deren.

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 book, conceived in the 2010s, demonstrates that the thesis of renewable energy prevailed. Despite still having a long way to go, after the epic battle between the forces of maintaining fossil fuels in the energy market in Brazil and in the U.S. and the favorable winds of energy and renewable energy infrastructure projects, renewables advanced quickly and are here to stay, whether we like it or not. Renewable energy developments that have taken place in the past decade (from 2010 when ...

Platon (427 av. J.-C. – 347 av. J.-C.) est un philosophe antique de la Grèce classique, contemporain de la démocratie athénienne et des sophistes, qu'il critiqua vigoureusement. Il reprit le travail philosophique de certains de ses prédécesseurs, notamment Socrate dont il fut l'élève, ainsi que celui de Parménide, Héraclite et Pythagore, afin d'élaborer sa propre pensée, laquelle explore la plupart des champs importants, notamment la métaphysique et l'éthique, l’esthétique et la politique....

A dialogue between Socrates and Meno probes the subject of ethics. Can goodness be taught? If it can, then we should be able to find teachers capable of instructing others about what is good and bad, right and wrong, or just and unjust. Socrates and Meno are unable to identify teachers of ethics, and we are left wondering how such knowledge could be acquired. To answer that puzzle, Socrates questions one of Meno's servants in an attempt to show that we know fundamental ideas by recollectin...

The "Republic" poses questions that endure: What is justice? What form of community fosters the best possible life for human beings? What is the nature and destiny of the soul? What form of education provides the best leaders for a good republic? What are the various forms of poetry and the other arts, which ones should be fostered, and which ones should be discouraged? How does knowing differ from believing? Several characters in the dialogue present a variety of tempting answers to those...

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?

Plato's dialogues frequently cover several topics and show their connection to each other. The "Phaedrus" is a model of that skill because of its seamless progression from examples of speeches about the nature of love to mythical visions of human nature and destiny to the essence of beauty and, finally, to a penetrating discussion of speaking and writing. It ends with an examination of the love of wisdom as a dialectical activity in the human mind.

Gorgias of Leontini, a famous teacher of rhetoric, has come to Athens to recruit students, promising to teach them how to become leaders in politics and business. A group has gathered at Callicles' house to hear Gorgias demonstrate the power of his art. This dialogue blends comic and serious discussion of the best life, providing a penetrating examination of ethics. Is it better to suffer evil or to do evil? Is it better to do something wrong and avoid being caught or to be caught and puni...