Plato
ISBN10: 0199555664 ISBN13: 9780199555666
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 25 Jun 2009
In these four dialogues Plato considers virtue and its definition. Charmides, Laches, and Lysis investigate the specific virtues of self-control, courage, and friendship; the laterMeno discusses the concept of virtue as a whole, and whether it... More
Plato
ISBN10: 0192807358 ISBN13: 9780192807359
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 13 Nov 2008
Timaeus, one of Plato's acknowledged masterpieces, is an attempt to construct the universe and explain its contents by means of as few axioms as possible. The result is a brilliant, bizarre, and surreal cosmos - the product of the rational... More
Plato
ISBN10: 0199540195 ISBN13: 9780199540198
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 11 Sep 2008
In his celebrated masterpiece, Symposium, Plato imagines a high-society dinner-party in Athens in 416 BC at which the guests - including the comic poet Aristophanes and, of course, Plato's mentor Socrates - each deliver a short speech in praise of... More
Plato
ISBN10: 0141023848 ISBN13: 9780141023847
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Edition: New edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 25 Aug 2005
Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have... More
Plato
ISBN10: 0199555656 ISBN13: 9780199555659
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 25 Jun 2009
In the fifth century BC professional educators, the sophists, travelled the Greek world claiming to teach success in public and private life. In this dialogue Plato shows the pretensions of the leading sophist, Protagoras, challenged by the... More
Plato Waterfield, Robin
ISBN10: 0199535760 ISBN13: 9780199535767
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 17 Apr 2008
The central work of one of the West's greatest philosophers, The Republic of Plato is a masterpiece of insight and feeling, the finest of the Socratic dialogues, and one of the great books of Western culture. This new translation captures the... More
Plato
ISBN10: 0199554021 ISBN13: 9780199554027
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 25 Jun 2009
Phaedrus is widely recognized as one of Plato's most profound and beautiful works. It takes the form of a dialogue between Socrates and Phaedrus and its ostensible subject is love, especially homoerotic love. This new translation is accompanied by... More
Plato
ISBN10: 0872206335 ISBN13: 9780872206335
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
Edition: 2nd Revised edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 05 Nov 2002
Presents translations of five dialogues from Plato, as well as additional notes on history and mythology. More
Plato
ISBN10: 0140455043 ISBN13: 9780140455045
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Penguin Classics
Edition: illustrated edition annotated edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 28 Aug 2008
The Timaeus-Critias is a Platonic treatise in two parts. A response to an account of an ideal state told by Socrates, it begins with Timaeus' theoretical exposition of the cosmos and his story describing the creation of the universe... More
Plato
ISBN10: 0140449035 ISBN13: 9780140449037
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Penguin Classics
Edition: New edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 27 Oct 2005
Exploring the question of what exactly makes good people good, Protagoras and Meno are two of the most enjoyable and accessible of all of Plato's dialogues. widely regarded as his finest dramatic work, the Protagoras, set during the golden age of... More
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