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Plato's GREATER HIPPIAS PDF (TEXT)
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Hippias of Elis travels throughout the Greek world practicing and teaching the art of making beautiful speeches. On a rare visit to Athens, he meets Socrates who questions him about the nature of his art. Socrates is especially curious about how Hippias would define beauty. They agree that "beauty makes all beautiful things beautiful," but when Socrates presses him to say precisely what he means by beauty, Hippias is unable to deliver. The more Socrates probes, the more absurd the responses from Hippias become. This is one of Plato's best comedies and one of his finest efforts at posing the difference between particular things and universals.
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    • Berkeley's THREE DIALOGUES
    • Descartes' MEDITATIONS
    • FORCING JUSTICE
    • Hume's DIALOGUES CONCERNING NATURAL RELIGION PDF
    • Kant's Foundations of Ethics
    • Mill's ON LIBERTY
    • Lao Zi, DAO DE JING
    • Nietzsche's THE BIRTH OF TRAGEDY
    • Plato's APOLOGY PDF
    • Plato's CRITO PDF
    • Plato's EUTHYPHRO PDF
    • Plato's GORGIAS
    • Plato's GREATER HIPPIAS
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    • Plato's MENO
    • Plato's PHAEDO
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