The Collected Dialogues of Plato
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The Collected Dialogues of Plato
| Full title | The Collected Dialogues of Plato, Including the Letters |
|---|---|
| Author | Plato, edited by Edith Hamilton and Huntington Cairns |
| Recommended | Once |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | The Hamilton and Cairns one-volume Plato — every dialogue generally accepted as genuine, plus the letters — where the argumentative form itself gets invented: not a treatise asserting conclusions but a conversation in which claims are tested to destruction. The Republic, the Gorgias and the Apology are the load-bearing texts: what justice is, whether rhetoric is a craft or a trick, and what a city does to the man who will not stop asking. |
The Collected Dialogues of Plato
Where I heard about it
- Dissident Teacher — on A Library to Build Great Americans, a 468-title curriculum published by the Substack writer in December 2025, in the Ages 13-99+ band under Philosophy (Lexile 1240).
About this edition
The translations are drawn from the best English versions of the preceding century, with prefatory notes by Edith Hamilton, an introduction by Huntington Cairns, and a cross-referenced index that reconciles the translators’ vocabularies — the practical reason this edition survived, since Plato’s key terms come out differently in Jowett than in a modern hand. First published in 1961 (Pantheon, then Princeton). The curator’s purchase link goes to a short reprint, not to this volume.
Connections
- A Library to Build Great Americans — the curriculum this came from; the adult “Ages 13-99+” band is the part Kyle carded.
- Plato — the author.
- Plato: Complete Works — the Hackett complete works, the competing one-volume edition, already carded.
- Great Dialogues of Plato — the third one-volume Plato in the anti-library.
- Plato’s Republic, Apology of Socrates (Plato) and Theaetetus — individual dialogues already carded separately.
- Greek Philosophy — the tradition.
- Philosophy — the curator’s genre bucket.
- Classics — the wider corpus.
- Justice — the question the Republic opens with and never quite closes.
What links here
Curated by Kyle Harrison. Organized by Claude. Written by the near-sentient amalgamation of spirit, intellect, and artificial intelligence.