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1) The Republic
Author
Lexile measure
1060L
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Republic is Plato's most famous work and one of the seminal texts of Western philosophy and politics. The characters in this Socratic dialogue - including Socrates himself - discuss whether the just or unjust man is happier. They are the philosopher-kings of imagined cities and they also discuss the nature of philosophy and the soul among other things.
3) Plato
Author
Series
Great philosophers) volume 23
Publisher
Routledge
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Audiobooks
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Paul Strathern offers a concise account of Plato's life and ideas, and explains their influence on man's struggle to understand his existence in the world. The book also include sections from Plato's work; a brief list of suggested reading for those who wish to push further; and chronologies that place Plato within his own age and in the broader scheme of philosophy.
Author
Series
Twayne's masterwork studies volume no. 122
Publisher
Twayne Publishers
Pub. Date
[1993]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"Plato's late dialogues have often been neglected because they lack the literary charm of his earlier masterpieces. Charles Kahn proposes a unified view of these diverse and difficult works, from the Parmenides and Theaetetus to the Sophist and Timaeus, showing how they gradually develop the framework for Plato's late metaphysics and cosmology. The Parmenides, with its attack on the theory of Forms and its baffling series of antinomies, has generally...
Author
Series
Routledge library editions. Plato volume 8
Publisher
Routledge
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Series
Brill's companions to classical reception volume Volume 13
Publisher
Brill
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English