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Plato
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
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Provides an account of Socrates' trial, jury verdict, and sentencing; explores the philosopher's views on his punishment; and offers his thoughts on death, immortality, and the nature of the soul.
The Trial and Death of Socrates includes the four Platonic dialogues Euthyphro, Apology, Crito and Phaedo.
Dialogue devoted to the relation between language and reality. This book opens up the Cratylus to all philosophically interested readers, as well as to cultural historians and to those whose…
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English translation of one of Plato’s least political dialogues has Socrates and Phaedrus discussing many themes: the art and practice of rhetoric, love, reincarnation, and the soul. With an interpretive…
Presents an introduction that traces the evolution in Plato’s political philosophy from ‘Republic’ to ‘Statesman’ to ‘Laws’ - from philosopher-king to royal statesman.
A translation of Plato’s dialogue on the nature of pleasure and its relation to thought and knowledge. It includes a cogent introduction, notes, and comprehensive bibliography.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work is in the public…
The Republic is a Socratic dialogue, written by Plato around 380 BC, concerning justice, the order and character of the just city-state, and the just man. It is Plato’s best-known…
Presented in the form of a dialogue between Socrates and three different interlocutors, this book is an enquiry into the notion of a perfect community and the ideal individual within…
The Apology of Socrates, written by Plato, is a Socratic dialogue of the speech of legal self-defence which Socrates spoke at his trial for impiety and corruption in 399 BC…
For what reason do men act fairly? Is this is because they dread cultural discipline? Is it accurate to say that they are shuddering before ideas of heavenly revenge? Do…
Erastae is a fascinating dialogue by Plato about the nature of philosophical inquiry and its relationship to the pursuit of wisdom. Through a series of conversations between Socrates and his…
