Every great thinker kept notes. This one honors the philosopher who asked whether anything we see is even real.
This hardcover journal features a bold portrait of Plato on the front cover and a biographical tribute on the back - the story of the man behind the art, printed where you'll see it every time you pick it up. Part of the Great Minds of Classical Greece collection. Designed for the work of serious thinking - study sessions, research, reflection, the pursuit of ideas worth questioning.
ABOUT PLATO (c. 428–348 BC)
Plato watched his teacher Socrates drink hemlock rather than abandon his principles. It changed everything he would ever write.
Born into one of Athens' most prominent families, Plato abandoned a political career after the execution of Socrates and spent the rest of his life pursuing a different kind of power - the power of ideas. He founded the Academy, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world, and wrote philosophical dialogues of such elegance and depth that they have never gone out of print.
His theory of Forms proposed that the world we perceive through our senses is merely a shadow of a higher reality - that truth, beauty, and justice exist as perfect ideals beyond human experience. His allegory of the cave remains one of the most powerful images in all of philosophy: prisoners mistaking shadows for reality, unable to conceive of the light behind them.
He also wrote about politics, love, mathematics, cosmology, and the nature of the soul with equal rigor and brilliance. Alfred North Whitehead famously observed that all of Western philosophy is merely a series of footnotes to Plato. The remark is an exaggeration. Not by much.
PRODUCT FEATURES
- Hardcover with matte laminate finish
- Full wraparound portrait print
- Biographical tribute printed on back cover
- Flexible casewrap binding
- Perforated pages for clean tear-out
- 150 lined pages
- Wipe clean gently with a dry cloth if needed
- A tool for your ideas. A tribute to his.