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Collins Classics - Republic by Plato
Category: Classic | 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.
Cratylus by Plato
Category: Philosophy and Religion
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
Defence of Socrates, Euthyphro, Crito by Plato
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Oxford World's Classics
These new translations present Plato's remarkable dramatization of the momentous events surrounding the trial of Socrates in 399 BC, on charges of irreligion and corrupting the young. The Euthyphro, Defence of Socrates, and Crito form a dramatic and thematic sequence, raising fundamental questions abou ...Show more
Early Socratic Dialogues by Plato
Category: Fantasy | Series: Classics S.
Rich in drama and humour, they include the controversial Ion, a debate on poetic inspiration; Laches, in which Socrates seeks to define bravery; and Euthydemus, which considers the relationship between philosophy and politics. Together, these dialogues provide a definitive portrait of the real Socrates ...Show more
Euthyphro: 1 by Plato
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
Gorgias by Plato
Category: Philosophy and Religion | 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
Gorgias by Plato
Category: Classic Fiction | 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
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: Reference
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: Culture | 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