The Collected Works of Plato

by Plato, Benjamin Jowett (Translator)

This Halcyon Classics ebook contains twenty-eight surviving works by Classical Greek philosopher Plato, including his influential discourse on political science, THE REPUBLIC. The modern legend of Atlantis comes from Plato's dialogues, TIMAEUS and CRITIAS.

Plato (c. 428 BC - c. 348 BC) was a Classical Greek philosopher, mathematician, writer of philosophical dialogues, and founder of the Academy in Athens. Along with his teacher, Socrates, and his student, Aristotle, Plato helped to lay the foundations of Western philosophy and science.

This ebook is DRM free and includes an active table of contents for easy navigation. This collection includes several texts which were probably written by imitators of Plato.

Contents

Alcibiades I
Alcibiades II
Apology
Charmides
Cratylus
Critias
Crito
Eryxias
Euthydemus
Euthyphro
Gorgias
Ion
Laches
Lesser Hippias
Lysis
Menexenus
Meno
Parmenides
Phaedo
Phaedrus
Philebus
Protagoras
The Republic
Sophist
Statesman
Symposium
Theaetetus
Timaeus

This unexpurgated edition contains the complete text with errors and omissions corrected.

Genres: Philosophy

1822 pages, Kindle Edition

Published July 8, 2010

About the author

Plato (Greek: Πλάτων), born Aristocles (c. 427 – 348 BC), was an ancient Greek philosopher of the Classical period who is considered a foundational thinker in Western philosophy and an innovator of the written dialogue and dialectic forms. He raised problems for what became all the major areas of both theoretical philosophy and practical philosophy, and was the founder of the Platonic Academy, a philosophical school in Athens where Plato taught the doctrines that would later become known as Platonism.
Plato's most famous contribution is the theory of forms (or ideas), which has been interpreted as advancing a solution to what is now known as the problem of universals. He was decisively influenced by the pre-Socratic thinkers Pythagoras, Heraclitus, and Parmenides, although much of what is known about them is derived from Plato himself.
Along with his teacher Socrates, and Aristotle, his student, Plato is a central figure in the history of philosophy. Plato's entire body of work is believed to have survived intact for over 2,400 years—unlike that of nearly all of his contemporaries. Although their popularity has fluctuated, they have consistently been read and studied through the ages. Through Neoplatonism, he also greatly influenced both Christian and Islamic philosophy. In modern times, Alfred North Whitehead famously said: "the safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato."