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THE REPUBLIC

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Plato was born in Athens about 428 or 427 B.C. and died there in 348 or 347 B.C. One of the most brilliant figures in the history of Western philosophy, he was the son of Ariston and Perictione, both of whom belonged to old and important Athenian families. His father died when he was young. Perictione remarried, and Plato's stepfather, Pyrilampes, played an active part in the political and cultural life of the age of Pericles. rnWith the expression of a few brief interludes, Plato's biography is uneventful; we find him founding and administering a university, spending his time in research and writing. But no one has ever equaled him in voyages of intellectual discovery and adventure. His idea of philosophy, as the discovery of an unchanging system of reality beyond the shifting appearances of our senses, ordered with mathematical regularity and culminating in the form of the good, established an ideal that Western Philosophy has felt ever since that it must either embrace or regretfully destroy.

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820 PLA r

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New York : Grolier., 1958

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xvi; p.480; 24 cm

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Indonesia

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717200019

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English Literatures/Kesusastraan Inggris

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Cet.1 1958

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Filsafat

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