{"product_id":"tyranny-and-wisdom-platos-greater-alcibiades-and-gorgias-9781642640601","title":"Tyranny and Wisdom: Plato's Greater Alcibiades and Gorgias","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the Ancient world, one began the study of Plato with two dialogues: the \u003cem\u003eGreater Alcibiades \u003c\/em\u003eand the \u003cem\u003eGorgias\u003c\/em\u003e, which depict Socrates' first conversations with two famous men: Alcibiades, the Athenian statesman, general, and traitor-and the great sophist Gorgias, who taught ambitious young men like Alcibiades how to rise as their society declined around them. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGreg Johnson's \u003cem\u003eTyranny \u0026amp; Wisdom\u003c\/em\u003e leads you carefully through these dialogues and demonstrates that the Ancients were right: together, they are an excellent introduction to Plato. Here we encounter Plato's most challenging ideas, threaded together by a highly dramatic conflict between two ways of life: the pursuit of power vs. the pursuit of wisdom. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eJohnson, Greg:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Greg Johnson, Ph.D., is Editor-in-Chief of Counter-Currents Publishing Ltd. and the Counter-Currents.com webzine. He is the author of twenty-four books, including The White Nationalist Manifesto (2018), From Plato to Postmodernism (2019), Graduate School with Heidegger (2020), The Trial of Socrates (2023), Against Imperialism (2023), and Novel Takes: Essays on Literature (2024).","brand":"Counter-Currents Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52033985380626,"sku":"9781642640601","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d46ea342-4ca5-4a20-a284-e81e450ef0f9.jpg?v=1770983857","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/tyranny-and-wisdom-platos-greater-alcibiades-and-gorgias-9781642640601","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}