The Dialogues of Plato
Bantam Books (1986)
| Abstract | "The unexamined life is not worth living." Socrates's ancient words are still true, and the ideas sounded in Plato's Dialogues still form the foundation of a thinking person's education. This superb collection contains excellent contemporary translations selected for their clarity and accessibility to today's reader, as well as an incisive introduction by Erich Segal, which reveals Plato's life and clarifies the philosophical issues examined in each dialogue. The first four dialogues recount the trial execution of Socrates--the extraordinary tragedy that changed Plato's life and so altered the course of Western though. Other dialogues create a rich tableau of intellectual life in Athens in the fourth century B.C., and examine the nature of virtue and love, knowledge and truth, society and the individual. Resounding with the humor and astounding brilliance of Socrates, the immortal iconoclast, these great works remain powerful, probing, and essential. | |||||||||
| Keywords | Philosophy | |||||||||
| Categories | ||||||||||
| Buy the book | $6.29 direct from Amazon (11% off) Amazon page | |||||||||
| Call number | B358.J8 1986 | |||||||||
| ISBN(s) | 0553213717 0217079164 | |||||||||
| Options |
|
|||||||||
Download options| PhilPapers Archive |
Upload a copy of this paper Check publisher's policy on self-archival Papers currently archived: 5,679 |
| External links | This entry has no external links. Add one. |
| Through your library | Configure |
Similar books and articles Plato (1949). Meno. New York, Liberal Arts Press.
R. M. Dancy (2004). Plato's Introduction of Forms. Cambridge University Press.
Catherine Osborne (2006). Socrates in the Platonic Dialogues. Philosophical Investigations 29 (1):1–21.
Charles H. Kahn (1996). Plato and the Socratic Dialogue: The Philosophical Use of a Literary Form. Cambridge University Press.
Plato (2007). Six Great Dialogues. Dover Publications.
C. J. Rowe (2007). Plato and the Art of Philosophical Writing. Cambridge University Press.
Sandra Peterson (2011). Socrates and Philosophy in the Dialogues of Plato. Cambridge University Press.
Thomas C. Brickhouse (2004). Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Plato and the Trial of Socrates. Routledge.
Gerald A. Press (2012). Plato's Philosophers: The Coherence of the Dialogues. Journal of the History of Philosophy 50 (1):133-135.
Analytics
Monthly downloads
Sorry, there are not enough data points to plot this chart.
|
Added to index2009-01-28Total downloads0Recent downloads (6 months)0How can I increase my downloads? |
My notes
Discussion
