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The Collected Dialogues of Plato

by Plato

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"The unexamined life is not worth living" Socrates's famous ancient words are still true, and the ideas sounded in Plato's Dialogues still form the foundation of a thinking person's education. This superb collection contains excellent contemporary translations selected for their clarity and accessibility to today's reader, as well as in incisive introduction by Erich Segal, which reveals Plato's life and clarifies the philosophical issues examined in ach dialogue. The first four dialogues recount the trial execution of Socrates - the extraordinary tragedy that changed Plato's life and so altered the course of Western though. Other dialogs create a rich tableau of intellectual life in Athens in the fourth centry B.C., and examine the nature of virtue and love, knowledge and truth, society and the individual. Resounding with the humor and astounding brilliance of Socrates, the immortal iconoclast, these great works remain powerful, probing, and essential."… (more)
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  luvucenanzo06 | Sep 8, 2023 |
Paperback falling apart. Trashed 3/19,2019
  Bill7101 | Mar 19, 2019 |
Dificilmente se poderia exagerar a influência de Platão sobre o pensamento filosófico e religioso do Ocidente. Mestre de todos os sonhadores, dos criadores de sistemas religiosos, morais e políticos, o genial discípulo de Sócrates deixou-nos nos Diálogos, um monumento do saber filosófico e do gênio literário da Grécia. Neste volume estão reunidos em texto integral cinco diálogos platônicos, traduzidos diretamente do grego pelo Prof. Jaime Bruna, da USP. Em todos os diálogos o elocutor é Sócrates, de cujas doutrinas eles dão testemunho. ( )
  EduardoOliveira | Jun 11, 2012 |
I love Plato and the dialogues in this book but I can't say I am fond of the translation or when the work is broken up by the editor to summarize what is happening on the page. They don't add anything that a reader with basic literacy skills would not get and only served to break up the flow of the dialogue. ( )
  unlucky | Oct 9, 2011 |
100 PLAT 13
  luvucenanzo06 | Aug 15, 2023 |
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Platoprimary authorall editionscalculated
Jowett, BenjaminTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Kaplan, Justin DEditorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
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"The Dialogues of Plato : translated into English with Analyses and Introductions by B Jowett by Plato , Third Edition in five volumes Clarendon Press: Oxford, 1892" is

1) not the smaller First or Second Oxford Editions, 1870, 1876;
2) nor the four volume Fourth Edition, which abbreviates Jowett's Analyses and Introductions;
3) not the 2 volume Bantam Classic, although this may reproduce the text of on of the above editions;
4) not the book reviewed first above for that contains only a few of the dialogues;
5) none of the 600 miscellaneous collections of Platonic dialogues given as editions of the Bantam Classic, and often with different translators.

The whole indexing of Plato's works in LibraryThing needs a major revision. I would suggest that the basic classification is based on the titles of individual works, which would enable dubious books, such as the Epistles, to have their status discussed.

In English, the major language of LibraryThing, Plato is the usual name of the author of these dialogues.
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"The unexamined life is not worth living" Socrates's famous ancient words are still true, and the ideas sounded in Plato's Dialogues still form the foundation of a thinking person's education. This superb collection contains excellent contemporary translations selected for their clarity and accessibility to today's reader, as well as in incisive introduction by Erich Segal, which reveals Plato's life and clarifies the philosophical issues examined in ach dialogue. The first four dialogues recount the trial execution of Socrates - the extraordinary tragedy that changed Plato's life and so altered the course of Western though. Other dialogs create a rich tableau of intellectual life in Athens in the fourth centry B.C., and examine the nature of virtue and love, knowledge and truth, society and the individual. Resounding with the humor and astounding brilliance of Socrates, the immortal iconoclast, these great works remain powerful, probing, and essential."

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3rd edn is large 8vo, gilt upper edge, originally bound in thick boards with bevel edges, covered with moroon silk, titles embossed in gilt.
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