=LDR 00000nam 2200000 4500 =001 INLIS000000000001413 =005 20200508201447 =008 200508||||||||| | ||| |||| ||eng|| =020 $$a 0-85229-531-6x6 =035 $0010-0520001413 =041 $$a eng =082 $$a 081.20 =084 $$a 081.20/PLA/G =100 $$a Plato =245 $$a Great Books Of The Western World =250 $$a Ke-5 =260 $$a Chicago $b Encyclopedia Britannica $c 2005 =300 $$a v, 814 hlm =504 $$a v-vi =520 $$a reat Books of the Western World is a series of books originally published in the United States in 1952 by Encyclopedia Britannica Inc. in an attempt to present the western canon in a single package of 54 volumes. The series is now in its second edition and contains 60 volumes. Volume 6 provides the history, philosophy, works and story of Plato. Together with his teacher, Socrates, and his student, Aristotle, Plato helped to lay the philosophical foundations of Western culture. Plato was also a mathematician, writer of philosophical dialogues, and founder of the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the western world. Plato was originally a student of Socrates, and was much influenced by his thinking as by what he saw as his teacher's unjust death