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WALTER J. BLACK'S CLASSICS CLUB INVITES YOU TO ACCEPT
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PLATO
FIVE GREAT DIALOGUES
nyiOTHlNG short of amazing is the way this
great classic (written more than two thou
sand 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 of PLATO is the fa
mous Jowett translation. It contains the five
great dialogues: Apology, Crito, Phaedo, Sympo
sium, and the Republic. In these dramatic con
versations between friends fresh, spontaneous,
humorous, informal you have "philosophy
brought down from heaven to earth."
MARCUS ARISTOTLE
AURELIUS
MEDITATIONS
THIOUGH 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 Meditations of the great emperor-philosopher,
Marcus Aurelius, the Stoic who found
peace in traditional customs . . . the witty argu
ments of Lucian, the Skeptic, who punctured
many beliefs ... the impassioned words of Justin,
the Christian, willing to die for the new reli
gion. With an introduction by Irwin Edman
and scenes describing early Christian rituals,
from Walter Pater's novel Marius the Epicurean.
ON MAN IN THE UNIVERSE
"rpiHE master of them that know," this supreme
mind of the fabulous Golden Age of Greece
was called by the poet Dante. Living over 2,000
years ago, he was so far ahead of his era that his
ideas are astonishingly timely today. Nature, pol
itics, art, drama, logic; morals he explored them
all, with a mind open to truth and a heart eager
for understanding.
Included is the essence of his five celebrated
essays Metaphysics, Paris of Animals, Nico
macbean Ethics, Politics, and Poetics. You will
be amazed, as you read them, how this great
philosopher discovered by pure reason so many
truths upon which modern scientists and think
ers have only recently agreed.
Why The Classics Club Offers You This Superb Value
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MARCUS AURELIUS pictured above, which I may keep for
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