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Cratylus by Plato
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Category: Philosophy
The Cratylus, Plato's sole dialogue devoted to the relation between language and reality, is acknowledged to be one of his masterpieces. But owing to its often enigmatic content no more than a handful of passages from it have played a part in the global evaluation of Plato's philosophy. This new English ...Show more
Gorgias by Plato
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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
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Category: Classics | 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
Meno and Other Dialogues: Charmides, Laches, Lysis, Meno by Plato
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Category: Children's Literature
Meno Charmides Laches Lysis ‘Do please try to tell us what courage is…’ In these four dialogues Plato considers virtue and its definition. Charmides, Laches, and Lysis investigate the specific virtues of self-control, courage, and friendship; the later Meno discusses the concept of virtue as a whole, ...Show more
Phaedrus by Plato
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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
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Category: Philosophy | Reading Level: very good
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 - The Republic by Plato
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Penguin Classics | Reading Level: good-very good
The Republic (Politeia; Latin: De Re Publica) is a Socratic dialogue, written by Plato around 380 BC, concerning the definition of justice, the order and character of the just city-state and the just man-for this reason, ancient readers used the name On Justice as an alternative title (not to be confuse ...Show more
Plato on Love: Lysis, Symposium, Phaedrus, Alcibiades, with Selections from Republic and Laws by Plato
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Category: Philosophy
This collection provides the essential readings for a course on Plato's views of sex and love, or a main component of more general courses on ideas of sex and love. Featured are the preeminent translations of Paul Woodruff, Alexander Nehamas,D. S. Hutchinson, Stanley Lombardo, and C.D. C. Reeve. This co ...Show more
Protagoras And Meno by Plato
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Category: Children's Literature
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