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April 30, 2012
SYMPOSIUM By Plato Translated by Benjamin Jowett Contents INTRODUCTION. SYMPOSIUM INTRODUCTION. Of all the works of Plato the Symposium is the most perfect in form, and may be truly thought to contain more than any commentator has ever dreamed of; or, as Goethe said of one of his own writings, more than the author […]
April 30, 2012
STATESMAN By Plato Translated by Benjamin Jowett Contents INTRODUCTION AND ANALYSIS. STATESMAN INTRODUCTION AND ANALYSIS. In the Phaedrus, the Republic, the Philebus, the Parmenides, and the Sophist, we may observe the tendency of Plato to combine two or more subjects or different aspects of the same subject in a single dialogue. In the […]
April 30, 2012
SOPHIST By Plato Translated by Benjamin Jowett Contents INTRODUCTION AND ANALYSIS. SOPHIST INTRODUCTION AND ANALYSIS. The dramatic power of the dialogues of Plato appears to diminish as the metaphysical interest of them increases (compare Introd. to the Philebus). There are no descriptions of time, place or persons, in the Sophist and Statesman, but we […]
April 30, 2012
PROTAGORAS By Plato Translated by Benjamin Jowett Contents INTRODUCTION. PROTAGORAS INTRODUCTION. The Protagoras, like several of the Dialogues of Plato, is put into the mouth of Socrates, who describes a conversation which had taken place between himself and the great Sophist at the house of Callias—’the man who had spent more upon the Sophists […]
April 30, 2012
PHILEBUS By Plato Translated by Benjamin Jowett Contents INTRODUCTION AND ANALYSIS. PHILEBUS INTRODUCTION AND ANALYSIS. The Philebus appears to be one of the later writings of Plato, in which the style has begun to alter, and the dramatic and poetical element has become subordinate to the speculative and philosophical. In the development of abstract […]
April 30, 2012
PHAEDRUS By Plato Translated by Benjamin Jowett ——————————————————————————– Contents INTRODUCTION. PHAEDRUS ——————————————————————————– INTRODUCTION. The Phaedrus is closely connected with the Symposium, and may be regarded either as introducing or following it. The two Dialogues together contain the whole philosophy of Plato on the nature of love, which in the Republic and in the later writings […]
April 30, 2012
PHAEDO By Plato Translated by Benjamin Jowett Contents INTRODUCTION. PHAEDO INTRODUCTION. After an interval of some months or years, and at Phlius, a town of Peloponnesus, the tale of the last hours of Socrates is narrated to Echecrates and other Phliasians by Phaedo the ‘beloved disciple.’ The Dialogue necessarily takes the form of a […]
April 30, 2012
MENO by Plato Translated by Benjamin Jowett Contents INTRODUCTION. ON THE IDEAS OF PLATO. MENO INTRODUCTION. This Dialogue begins abruptly with a question of Meno, who asks, ‘whether virtue can be taught.’ Socrates replies that he does not as yet know what virtue is, and has never known anyone who did. ‘Then […]
April 30, 2012
LYSIS By Plato Translated by Benjamin Jowett Contents INTRODUCTION. LYSIS, OR FRIENDSHIP PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE INTRODUCTION. No answer is given in the Lysis to the question, ‘What is Friendship?’ any more than in the Charmides to the question, ‘What is Temperance?’ There are several resemblances in the two Dialogues: the same youthfulness […]
April 30, 2012
ION By Plato Translated by Benjamin Jowett Contents INTRODUCTION. ION INTRODUCTION. The Ion is the shortest, or nearly the shortest, of all the writings which bear the name of Plato, and is not authenticated by any early external testimony. The grace and beauty of this little work supply the only, and perhaps a […]