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Collins Classics - Republic by Plato
Category: Classics | Series: Collins Classics Ser.
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Plato's The Republic has influenced Western philosophers for centuries, with its main focus on what makes a well-balanced society and individual.
Gorgias by Plato
Category: Philosophy | Series: Oxford World's Classics
The struggle which Plato has Socrates recommend to his interlocutors in Gorgias - and to his readers - is the struggle to overcome the temptations of worldly success and to concentrate on genuine morality. Ostensibly an enquiry into the value of rhetoric, the dialogue soon becomes an investigation into ...Show more
Gorgias by Plato
Category: Philosophy | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Taking the form of a dialogue among Socrates, Gorgias, Polus, and Callicles, the Gorgias debates crucial questions about the nature of government. While the aspiring politician Callicles propounds the view that might is right, and the rhetorician Gorgias argues that oratory and the power to persuade rep ...Show more
Great Dialogues of Plato : Complete Texts of the Republic, the Apology, Crito Phaedo, Ion, Meno, Symposium by Rebecca Newberger (AFT) Matthew S. (INT); Goldstein W. H. D. (TRN); Santirocco Plato; Rouse
Category: Non-Fiction
The Republic and other great dialogues by the immortal Greek philosopher Plato are masterpieces that form part of the most important single body of writing in the history of philosophy. Beauty, love, immortality, knowledge, and justice are discussed in these dialogues, which magnificently express the gl ...Show more
Lysis. Symposium. Gorgias by Plato; W. R. M. Lamb (Translator)
Category: History | Series: Loeb Classical Library
Plato, the great philosopher of Athens, was born in 427 BCE. In early manhood an admirer of Socrates, he later founded the famous school of philosophy in the grove Academus. Much else recorded of his life is uncertain; that he left Athens for a time after Socrates' execution is probable; that later he w ...Show more
Phaedo by Plato
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
The Phaedo is acknowledged to be one of Plato's greatest masterpieces, showing him both as a philosopher and as a dramatist at the height of his powers. For its moving account of the execution of Socrates, the Phaedo ranks among the supreme literary achievements of antiquity. It is also a seminal docume ...Show more
Phaedrus by Plato
Category: Philosophy | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Phaedrus is widely recognized as one of Plato's most profound and beautiful works. It takes the form of a dialogue between Socrates and Phaedrus and its ostensible subject is love, especially homoerotic love. This new translation is accompanied by an introduction, further reading, and full notes on the ...Show more
Plato - Complete Works by Plato
Category: Classics
This edition includes the entire surviving corpus attributed to Plato in antiquity. In addition to the texts, it contains introductions to the works, discussion on the chronology of their composition, comments on the dialogue form in which Plato wrote, and guidance on reading and studying Plato.
Plato Phaedo by Peter Kalkavage (Editor); Ericino de Salema (Editor); Eva Brann (Editor); Phaedo Plato; G. M. A. Grube (Translator)
Category: Philosophy | Series: Focus Philosophical Library
This is an English translation of one of Plato's great dialogues of Socrates talking about death, dying, and the soul due to his impending execution. Included is an introduction and glossary of key terms. Focus Philosophical Library translations are close to and are non-interpretative of the original te ...Show more
Protagoras And Meno by Plato
Category: Classics
Exploring the question of what exactly makes good people good, Protagoras and Meno are two of the most enjoyable and accessible of all of Plato's dialogues. Widely regarded as his finest dramatic work, the Protagoras, set during the golden age of Pericles, pits a youthful Socrates against the revered so ...Show more