Scott Buchanan – författare

Writing in the fourth century B.C., in an Athens that had suffered a humiliating defeat in the Peloponnesian War, Plato formulated questions that have haunted the moral, religious, and political imagination of the West for more than 2,000 years: what is virtue? How should we love? What constitutes a good society? Is there a soul that outlasts the body and a truth that transcends appearance? What do we know and how do we know it? Plato's inquiries were all the more resonant because he couched them in the form of dramatic and often highly comic dialogues, whose principal personage was the ironic, teasing, and relentlessly searching philosopher Socrates.In this splendid collection, Scott Buchanan brings together the most important of Plato's dialogues, including Protagoras, The Symposium, with its barbed conjectures about the relation between love and madness, Phaedo and The Republic, his monumental work of political philosophy. Buchanan's learned and engaging introduction allows us to see Plato both as a commentator on his society and as a shaper of the societies that followed, who bequeathed to us a hunger for the ideal as well as a redeeming habit of humane skepticism.

"The Doctrine of Signaturesis one of the first and most significant works in our time to show how closelyconnected the liberal arts are to clinical medicine. It is the seminal workin the recent history of the philosophy of medicine, a field that is enjoyinga renaissance throughout the world today."-- Edmund D. Pellegrino, M.D.

This is Volume II of seven in the Philosophy of Religion and General Philosophy series. Originally published in 1927, this essay takes the position of the bewildered individual seeking an intellectual way of life. In philosophy this is called methodology. It may not lead to future discovery or invention, but it may bring peace of mind in the present confusion, a zone of calm in the storm of doctrines.

First published in 2000. This is Volume II of six in the Library of Philosophy series on the Philosophy of Science. Written in 1938, this text explores the author's interest in the freedom of speculation, and the doubts and fears of individual thinkers who may doubt the intellectual process and fear its consequences. He considers the profession of contemporary medicine who has fought and won the battle for freedom of thought.

This is Volume II of seven in the Philosophy of Religion and General Philosophy series. Originally published in 1927, this essay takes the position of the bewildered individual seeking an intellectual way of life. In philosophy this is called methodology. It may not lead to future discovery or invention, but it may bring peace of mind in the present confusion, a zone of calm in the storm of doctrines.

First published in 2000. This is Volume II of six in the Library of Philosophy series on the Philosophy of Science. Written in 1938, this text explores the author's interest in the freedom of speculation, and the doubts and fears of individual thinkers who may doubt the intellectual process and fear its consequences. He considers the profession of contemporary medicine who has fought and won the battle for freedom of thought.