Plato

Three Socratic dialogues by the ancient Greek philosopher who established the foundations of Western thought. Apology: In this classic text, Plato recounts the trial of his mentor Socrates, who stands accused of rejecting the gods and corrupting the youth of Athens. As recounted by Plato, Socrates defends himself with a profound examination of integrity, citizenship, the nature of truth, and the role of a philosopher. Symposium: Here Plato depicts...

Plato's brilliant dialogues, written in the fourth century B.C., rank among Western civilization's most important philosophical works. Presented as a series of probing conversations between Socrates and his students and fellow citizens, they form a magnificent dialectical quest that examines enduring political, ethical, metaphysical, and epistemological issues. Here, in one inexpensive edition, are six of Plato's remarkable and revelatory dialogues,...

Pese a ser una obra menor, el Ion tiene un papel determinante en el corpus platonicum. En efecto, en él se esboza por vez primera la famosa crítica a la poesía como saber y se especifican las condiciones del arte (téchne) y la ciencia (epistéme) como formas de saber. Ion es un rapsoda que viene de haber ganado un famoso certamen artístico y que se ufana de poseer un verdadero saber sobre Homero. A partir de su tradicional método de preguntas...

The Charmides is a dialogue of Plato, in which Socrates engages a handsome and popular boy in a conversation about the meaning of sophrosyne, a Greek word usually translated into English as "temperance", "self-control", or "restraint". As is typical with Platonic early dialogues, the two never arrive at a completely satisfactory definition, but the discussion nevertheless raises many important points.

This book contains the four dialogues between Socrates and Plato that chronicle the elder's final days. Socrates (470/469 – 399 BC) was an Athenian philosopher considered to be one of the founding fathers of Western philosophy. Plato (424/423 – 348/347 BC) was a Greek philosopher who founded the first institution of higher learning in the Western world, the Academy in Athens. This volume is highly recommended for anyone with an interest in philosophy...

In "Meno," Socrates and Meno set out to find teachers of ethics. When they are unable to find any, the reader is left wondering if knowledge, goodness, and justness can be taught. "Parmenides" tells of the meeting between a young Socrates and two philosophers from the Eleatic school, Parmenides and Zeno. In his most challenging work of philosophy, Plato debates monism and plurality. In "Theaetetus," Socrates and Theaetetus explore the three definitions...

Two major works by one of history's best known and most widely read and studied philosophers. In Gorgias, an exploration of the proposition that it is better to suffer wrong than to do wrong, Socrates debates with an amoral young sophist and assets that it is preferable to endure someone else's bad conduct than to be the source of bad behavior.Timaeus relates a creation myth that concludes with the birth of humanity, in which Socrates demonstrates...

Platón, Discípulo de Sócrates y maestro de Aristóteles, es uno de los filósofos más importantes de todos los tiempos y desarrolló sus doctrinas filosóficas mediante mitos y alegorías. La República tiene un papel central en la filosofía. En ella se abordan cuestiones fundamentalmente políticas, como la definición de la justicia, la justa organización de la sociedad, la famosa teoría de las ideas, el mito de la caverna... Un libro clave...

All the writings of Plato generally considered to be authentic are here presented in the only complete one-volume Plato available in English. The editors set out to choose the contents of this collected edition from the work of the best British and American translators of the last 100 years, ranging from Jowett (1871) to scholars of the present day. The volume contains prefatory notes to each dialogue, by Edith Hamilton; an introductory essay on Plato's...

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 BCE.