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Plato (English pronunciation: /ˈpleɪtoʊ/; Greek: Πλάτων, Plátōn, "broad"[2]; 428/427 BC[a] – 348/347 BC), was a Classical Greek philosopher, mathematician, writer of philosophical dialogues, and founder of the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world. Along with his mentor, Socrates, and his student, Aristotle, Plato helped to lay the foundations of Western philosophy and science.[3] Plato was originally a student of Socrates, and was as much influenced by his thinking as by his apparently unjust execution.
Plato's sophistication as a writer is evident in his Socratic dialogues; thirty-six dialogues and thirteen letters have been ascribed to him. Plato's writings have been published in several fashions; this has led to several conventions regarding the naming and referencing of Plato's texts.
Plato's dialogues have been used to teach a range of subjects, including philosophy, logic, rhetoric and mathematics.
Bibliography
Plato's Theory of Knowledge:
The Theaetetus and the Sophist of Plato
Translated, with commentary
by Francis M. Cornford, 1934/57
The Portable PLATO
Edited, and with An Illuminating Discussion
of the Platonic Dialogues,
by Scott Buchannan, 1948/73
Plato:
The Collected Dialogues including the Letters
Edited by Edith Hamilton and Huntington Cairns, 1961
The Euthyphro, Charmides, Laches, and the Greater Hippias
the inquiry concerns the class, the Idea. The questions asked are,
What is piety? What is Temperance? What is courage? What is beauty?
(TCD Introduction)
Plato Dictionary
Edited by Morris Stockhammer, 1963
The Mind of Plato
by A. E. Taylor, 1964
Great Thinkers on Plato
Edited and selected by Barry Gross, 1968
Plato's Analytic Method
by Kenneth M. Sayre, 1969
Plato I:
Metaphysics and Epistemology,
A Collection of Critical Essays
Edited by Gregory Vlastos, 1971
Plato II:
Ethics, Politics, Philosophy of Art and Religion,
A Collection of Critical Essays
Edited by Gregory Vlastos, 1971
The Being Of The Beautiful
Plato's Theaetetus, Sophist, and Statesman
Translated and with Commentary by Seth Benardete, 1984
Socrates' Second Sailing
On Plato's Republic
By Seth Benardete, 1989
"When the winds fail, the sailor turns to oars.
He relies on longer on any help outside himself. Socrates philosophy, as we know it from Plato, is the practice of this so-called second sailing." Page 2.
"Symbolism is shorthand for an argument. The Republic begins as a story of a thwarted ascent. Socreates is its narrrator. It seems to be a matter of chance that Socrates was thwarted and took the occasion to discuss justice." Page 9.
The Republic of Plato
Translated, with Notes, An Interpretive Essay,
and a New Introduction
by Allan Bloom, 1991
Plato's Ethics
by Terence Irwin, 1995
Plato Republic
Translated from the New Standard Greek Text,
with Introduction
by C. D. C. Reeve, 2004
The Death of Socrates
By Emily Wilson, 2007
Plato's Philosophers
The Coherence of The Dialogues
by Catherine H. Zuchert, 2009
Plato's Republic
A Dialogue in 16 Chapters
by Alain Badiou
Translated by Susan Spitzer and
Introduction by Kenneth Reinhard, 2012
THE MUSICAL STRUCTURE OF
PLATO'S DIALOGUES
by J. B. Kennedy,
Greek Studies
The Latin word for mercy, misericordia, comes from "heart" and means
"to give heart to those who are miserable."
From Religion to Philosophy:
A Study in the Origins of Western Speculation
by F. M. Cornford, 1912/57
The Greek Way
by Edith Hamilton, 1930
Mythology
by Edith Hamilton, 1942
The Echo of Greece
by Edith Hamilton, 1957
Before and After Socrates
by F. M. Cornford, 1932/66
Before Philosophy:
The Intellectual Adventure of Ancient Man
An Essay on Speculative Thought in the Near East
by H. and H. A. Frankfort, John A. Wilson
and Thorkild Jacobsen, 1946/72
Greek and Roman Influences on Western Literature
by Gilbert Highet, 1949/76
The Greeks and their Gods
by W. K. C. Guthrie, 1950
The Greeks and The Irrational
By E. R. Dodds, 1950
Daily Life in Greece
At the Time of Pericles
by Robert Flaceliere, 1956/1996
Philosophical Greek:
An Introduction
by Francis H. Fobes, 1957/73
The Discovery of the Mind
in Greek Philosophy and Literature
By Bruno Snell, 1958/1982
Table of Contents
1. Homer's View of Man
2. The Olympian Gods
3. The Rise of the Individual
4. Pindar's Hymn to Zeus
5. Myth and Reality in Greek Tragedy
6. Aristophanes and Aesthetic Criticism
7. Human Knowledge and Divine Knowledge ...
8. The Call to Virture: A Brief Chapter from Greek Ethics
9. From Myth to Logic: The Role of the Comparison
10. The Origin of Scientific Thought
11. The Discovery of Humanitas, ...
12. Art and Play in Callimachus
13. Arcadia: The Discovery of a Spiritual Landscape
The Presocratics
Edited by Philip Wheelwright, 1966
Greek Realities:
Life and thought in Ancient Greece
by Finley Hooper, 1967
The Masters of Truth in Archaic Greece
By Marcel Detienne
Translated by Janet Lloyd, 1967/1996
Greek-English Lexicon
Abridged from
Liddell and Scott's Greek-English Lexicon, 1972
Art and Experience in Classical Greece
by J. J. Pollitt, 1972/89
The Parthenon
Edited by Vincent J. Bruno, 1974/96
Norton Critical Studies in Art History
Greek Religion
by Walter Burkert, 1977/85
Lost Goddesses of Early Greece
A Collection of Pre-Hellenic Myths
by Charlene Spretnak, 1978
A History of Greek Philosophy: Volume 1
The Earlier Presocratics and the Pythagoreans
by W. K. C. Guthrie, 1979
A History of Greek Philosophy: Volume 2
The Presocratic Tradition from Parmenides to Democritus
by W. K. C. Guthrie, 1979
Atlas of the Greek World
By Peter Levi, 1984
The Trial of Socrates
by I. F. Stone, 1989
A Traveller's History of Greece
by Timothy Boatswain and Colin Nicolson, 1989
Philosophy Before Socrates
An Introduction with Texts and Commentary
by Richard D. McKirahan, 1994/2011
The Art of Living:
The Classical Manual on Virtue,
Happiness, and Effectiveness
by Epictetus
A New Interpretation by Sharon Lebell, 1994
Tha Greeks and Greek Civilization
Edited by Oswyn Murray
Translated by Shelia Stern, 1998
The Presocratics after Heidegger
Edited by David C. Jacobs, 1999
Fragments
The Collected Wisdom of Heraclitus
Translated by Brooks Haxton
With a Forward by James Hillman, 2001
The Cynic Philosophers:
From Diogenes to Julian
Translated and edited by
Robert Dobbin, 2012
The Republic of Plato
Contents
PART I
(Book I). Some Current Views Of Justice
Chap. I (i. 327-331d). Cephalus. Justice as Honesty in word and deed
II (331e-336 a). Polemarchus. Justice as Helping Friends and Harming Enemies
III (336 b-347 e). Thrasymachus. Justice as the Interest of the Stronger
IV (347 e-354 c). Thrasymachus. Is Injustice more profitable than Justice?
Part II
(Books II-IV, 445 b). Justice in the State and in the Individual
V (ii. 357 a-367 e). The Problem stated
VI (367 e-372 a). The Rudiments of Social Organization
VII (372 a-374 e). The Luxurious State
VIII (375 a-376 e). The Guardians’ Temperament
IX (376 e-iii. 412 b). Primary Education of the Guardians
1 (376 e-iii. 392 c) Censorship of Literature for School Use
2 (392 c-398 b). The Influence of Dramatic Recitation
3 (398 c-400 c). Musical Accompaniment and Metre
4 (400 c-403 c). The Aim of Education in Poetry and Music
5 (403 c-412 b). Physical Training. Physicians and Judges
X (412 b-iv. 421 c) Selection of Rulers: The Guardians’ Manner of Living
XI (421c-427 c). The Guardians’ Duties
XII (427 c-434 d). The Virtues of the State
XIII (434 d-441 c). The Three Parts of the Soul
XIV (441 c-445 b). The Virtues of the Individual
Part II
(Book IV, 445 b-v, 471 c). The position of Women and the Usages of War
XV (445 b-457 b). The Equality of Women
XVI (457 b-466 d). Abolition of the Family for the Guardians
XVII (466 d-471 c). Usages of War
Part III
(Book V, 471c-VII). The Philosopher King
XVIII (471c-474 b). The Paradox: Philosophers must be Kings
XIX (474b-480). Definition of the Philosopher. The Two Worlds
XX (vi.. 484 a-487 a). The Philosophers fitness to Rule
XXI(487 b-497 a). Why the Philosophic Nature is useless or corrupted in existing society
XXII (497 a-502 c). A Philosophic Ruler is not an Impossibility
XXIII (502 c-509 c). The Good as the Highest Object of Knowledge
XXIV (509 d-511 e). Four Stages of Cognition. The Line
XXV (vii. 514 a-521 b). The Allegory of the Cave
XXVI (521 c-531 c). Higher Education. Mathematics
1 (524 d-526c). Arithmetic
2 (526 c-527 c). Geometry
3 (527 d-528 e). Solid Geometry
4(528 e-530 c). Astronomy
5 (530 c-531 c). Harmonics
XXVII (531 c-535 a). Dialectic
XXVIII (535 a-541 b). Programme of Studies
Part IV
(Books VIII-IX). The Decline of Society and of The Soul.
Comparison of the Just and Unjust Lives
XXIX (viii. 543 a-550 c). The Fall of the Ideal State.
Timocracy and the Timocratic Man
XXX (550 c-555 b). Oligarchy (Plutocracy) and the Oligarchic Man
XXXI (555 b-562 a). Democracy and the Democratic Man
XXXII (562 a-ix. 576b) Despotism and the Despotic Man
XXXIII (576 b-588 a). The Just and Unjust Lives compared in respect of Happiness
XXXIV (588 b-592 b). Justice, not Injustice, is profitable
Part V
(Book X, 595 a-608 b). The Quarrel Between Philosophy and Poetry
XXXV (x. 595 a-602 b). How Representation in Art is related to Truth
XXXVI (602 c-605 c). Dramatic Poetry appeals to the Emotions not to the Reason
XXXVII (605 c-608 b). The Effect of Dramatic Poetry on Character
Part VI
(Book X, 608 c-end). Immortality and The Rewards of Justice
XXXIII (608 c-612 a). A Proof of Immortality
XXXIX (612 a-613 e). The Rewards of Justice in this Life
XL (613 e-end). The Rewards of Justice after Death. The Myth of Er
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