Plato in 60 Minutes: Great Thinkers in 60 Minutes

by Walther Ziegler

Plato's great discovery was radically new but has echoed down the ages. His "theory of Ideas" has shaped the whole of Western culture and his name is known worldwide. More than 2000 years ago Plato used his "allegory of the cave" - which envisaged people looking at shadows on a cavern wall and taking them for realities - to express a terrible suspicion. He saw his fellow Athenians living in a manipulated world of appearances - cut off from reality...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3741227617
• ISBN13: 9783741227615
• Release Date: July 2016
• Publisher: Books on Demand
• Length: 108 Pages
• Weight: 0.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.8" x 8.3"