Writing in the fourth century B.C., in an Athens that had suffered a humiliating defeat in the Peloponnesian War, Plato formulated questions that have haunted the moral, religious, and political imagination of the West for more than...

This translation by Dorothea Frede of Plato's dialogue on the nature of pleasure and its relation to thought and knowledge achieves a high standard of readability and fidelity to the Greek text. The volume includes a cogent...

"Plato: Complete Works" ist eine umfassende Sammlung der Werke des antiken griechischen Philosophen Plato. Diese Ausgabe enthält alle erhaltenen Dialoge und Briefe, die traditionell Plato zugeschrieben werden. Die Sammlung umfasst sowohl...

The Republic deals with almost the whole range of Plato's thought, but is particularly concerned with what makes a well-balanced society and individual. It combines argument with myth to advocate a life organized by reason rather than...

Das Buch "Opera: Volume IV" aus der Reihe Oxford Classical Texts umfasst vier bedeutende Dialoge von Plato: "Clitopho", "Respublica" (auch bekannt als "Der Staat"), "Timaeus" und "Critias". 1. **Clitopho**: Dieser kurze Dialog ist eine...

A fresh, practical approach to Plato's best known dialogues: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo, and Symposium. von Plato

The revised edition of Grube's classic translation follows and furthers Grube's noted success in combining fidelity to Plato’s text with natural readability, while reflecting the fruits of new scholarship and insights into Plato's...

The trial and death of Socrates (469-399 BCE) have almost as central a place in Western consciousness as the trial and death of Jesus. In four superb dialogues, Plato provides the classic account. Euthyphro finds Socrates outside the...

Timaeus and Critias is a Socratic dialogue in two parts. A response to an account of an ideal state told by Socrates, it begins with Timaeus’s theoretical exposition of the cosmos and his story describing the creation of the universe,...

Plato (c.427-347 BC) stands with Socrates and Aristotle as one of the founders of the Western intellectual tradition. Inspired by Socrates' teaching, Plato sought a cure for the ills of society not in politics but in philosophy, and in...

The second edition of Five Dialogues presents G. M. A. Grube's distinguished translations, as revised by John Cooper for Plato, Complete Works . A number of new or expanded footnotes are also included along with an updated...

Influential philosophical treatise of 4th century BC chiefly concerns the idea of justice, plus Platonic theories of ideas, criticism of poetry, philosopher's role. Source of the cave myth. Jowett translation. von Plato