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PLATO
FIVE GREAT DIALOGUES
Nothing short of amazing is the way this great classic (written
more than two thousand years ago) hits so many nails
squarely on the head today! Here, in the clearest reasoning in all
literature, is the pure essence of how to get the best out of life
whether we possess worldly wealth or only the riches in our hearts
and minds.
This beautiful edition contains the five great dialogues. In
these conversations between friends fresh, spontaneous, humor
ous, informal you have "philosophy brought down from heaven
to earth."
MARCUS AURELIUS
MEDITATIONS
THROUGH these writings, you gaze as if through a powerful
telescope at the Rome of eighteen centuries ago. You will be
struck by resemblances to our own era as you read the wise Medita
tions of the great emperor-philosopher, Marcus Aurelius, the Stoic
who found peace in traditional customs . . . the witty arguments
of Lucian, the Skeptic, who punctured so many beliefs . . . the im
passioned words of Justin, the Christian, willing to die for the
new religion.
ARISTOTLE
ON MAN IN
THE UNIVERSE
m-t1he master of them that know," this supreme mind of. the
JL fabulous Golden Age of Greece was called by the poet Dante.
He was so far ahead of his era that his ideas are astonishingly
timely today. Nature, politics, art, drama, logic, morals he ex
plored them all, with a mind open to truth and a heart eager for
understanding.
Included is the essence of his five celebrated essays. You will
be amazed, as you read them, how this great philosopher dis
covered by pure reason so many truths upon which modern scien
tists and thinkers have only recently agreed.
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Why The Classics Club Offers You This Superb Value
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