Great Dialogues of Plato
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Great Dialogues of Plato
| Author | Plato |
|---|---|
| Recommended | Once |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | The standard one-volume selection of Plato — the Republic entire, with Apology, Crito, Phaedo, Ion, Meno and Symposium — where Socrates asks what justice is and whether it pays, whether virtue can be taught and whether the soul survives, and where the cave, the ship of state and the philosopher-king come from. |
Great Dialogues of Plato
Where I heard about it
- Li Lu — at the head of the History of Western Civilization section of Li Lu’s Recommended Book List, a chronological walk through the West by way of its primary texts (Plato, Augustine, Descartes, Freud, in that order). Starting at Plato is the whole design: the West read as a single long argument, from the source.
About this edition
The standard anthology under this title is W. H. D. Rouse’s Signet Classics translation, first issued in 1956; Li Lu’s list gives neither year nor publisher. The dialogues themselves were written in Athens in the fourth century BC.
Connections
- Plato — the author.
- Socrates — the character through whom almost all of it is argued.
- Philosophy and Ethics — the dialogues are where both get their standing questions.
- Plato’s Republic — the longest dialogue in this volume, already in the anti-library on its own.
- Plato: Complete Works — the unabridged alternative already carded; this is the selected one-volume route.
- Li Lu · Himalaya Capital — the curator and the bibliography.
What links here
Curated by Kyle Harrison. Organized by Claude. Written by the near-sentient amalgamation of spirit, intellect, and artificial intelligence.