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The Republic
Plato
Plato’s Republic is a foundational work of classical literature that also functions as an early treatise on…
Symposium
Plato’s Symposium is a classical philosophical dialogue that brings together a group of Athenian thinkers,…
Phaedrus
Plato’s Phaedrus is a Socratic dialogue that opens with a probing exchange between Socrates and his young…
The Republic of Plato
The work is Plato’s Republic, a foundational treatise of political philosophy that opens with a vivid…
Phaedo
Plato’s Phaedo is a philosophical dialogue that opens with a lively exchange among Socrates and his friends…
Apology
Plato’s Apology presents the recorded defence of Socrates at his trial in Athens, framed as a three‑part…
Gorgias
Plato’s Gorgias is a philosophical dialogue that pits Socrates against three prominent Athenian figures,…
Laws
Plato’s Laws is a sprawling philosophical dialogue that takes the form of a long conversation among three…
Theaetetus
Plato’s Theaetetus is a middle‑period dialogue that unfolds as a philosophical investigation into the nature…
Timaeus
Plato’s Timaeus is a philosophical dialogue that ventures into the realm of cosmology, blending abstract…
Meno
Plato’s Meno is a Socratic dialogue that launches with a terse exchange: Meno asks whether virtue can be…
Apology, Crito, and Phaedo of Socrates
This volume presents three of Plato’s most celebrated dialogues, Apology, Crito, and Phaedo, which together…
Critias
Plato’s Critias is a fragmentary dialogue that was meant to be the second part of an unfinished trilogy,…
Protagoras
Euthyphro
Sophist
Ion
Parmenides
Philebus
Statesman
Cratylus
Menexenus
Charmides
