Platoâs most famous work and one of the most important books ever written on the subject of philosophy and political theory, "The Republic" is a fictional dialogue between Socrates and other various Athenians and foreigners...
Many interpreters have regarded the Parmenides as a 'reductio ad absurdum' of the Eleatic philosophy. But would Plato have been likely to place this in the mouth of the great Parmenides himself, who appeared to him, in Homeric language, to be 'venerable...
Thirty-six dialogues and thirteen letters have traditionally been ascribed to Plato, though modern scholarship doubts the authenticity of at least some of these. Plato's writings have been published in several fashions; this has led to several conventions...
Plato (474 BC-347 BC). Plato's works available in Penguin Classics are Republic , The Last Days of Socrates , The Laws , Phaedrus , Protagoras and Meno , Timaeus and Critias , Theaetetus , Early Socratic D
The Being of the Beautiful collects Platoâs three dialogues, the Theaetetus , Sophist , and Statesmen , in which Socrates formulates his conception of philosophy while preparing for trial. Renowned classicist Seth Benardeteâ&...
Book X of Plato's Republic deals with aesthetic theory, the immortality of the soul, and the destiny of man. This student edition, first published in 1957, contains a substantial introduction including sections on historical background, Socrates, Plato...