Plato

Plato

Plato (c. 427-347 b.c.) wrote more than twenty philosophical dialogues, was an immensely influential classical Greek philosopher, student of Socrates, teacher of Aristotle, writer, and founder of the Academy in Athens. Plato lectured extensively at the Academy, but he also wrote on many philosophical issues. The most important writings of Plato are his dialogues in which he often records Socrates conversations, it is for this for which he is mostly known.

In Plato's writings are debates concerning the best possible form of government, featuring adherents of aristocracy, democracy, monarchy as well as other issues. A central theme is the conflict between nature and order. Another key distinction and theme in the Platonic corpus is the dichotomy between knowledge and opinion, which foreshadow modern debates between David Hume and Immanuel Kant, and has been taken up by postmodernists and their opponents, more commonly as the distinction between the 'objective' and the 'subjective'.

Perhaps Plato's greatest legacy was his dualistic metaphysics, often called Platonism or (Exaggerated) Realism. Plato also had some influential opinions on the nature of knowledge and learning which he propounded in the Meno, which began with the question of whether virtue can be taught, and proceeded to expound the concepts of recollection, learning as the discovery of pre-existing knowledge, and right opinion, opinions which are correct but have no clear justification.

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Dialogues on Love and Friendship
by Plato
from Heritage Press
for 10th-Adult
in Vintage Fiction & Literature (Location: VIN-FIC)
Five Dialogues of Plato
by Plato, translated by G.M.A. Grube, revised by John M. Cooper
2nd edition from Hackett Publishing Company
Ancient Philosophy for 9th-Adult
in Ancient Literature (Location: LIT1-ANC)
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Five Great Dialogues of Plato
by Plato
2nd edition from Walter J. Black, Inc.
Ancient Philosophy for 9th-Adult
in Walter J. Black Classics Club (Location: VIN-LITWJB)
Gorgias
Oxford World's Classics
by Plato
from Oxford University
Ancient Philosophy for 9th-Adult
in Ancient Literature (Location: LIT1-ANC)
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Gorgias
Penguin Classics
by Plato
from Penguin Classics
Ancient Philosophy for 9th-Adult
in Ancient Literature (Location: LIT1-ANC)
$8.50
Great Dialogues of Plato
Signet Classics
by Plato
from Signet Classics
Ancient Philosophy for 9th-Adult
in Ancient Literature (Location: LIT1-ANC)
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Last Days of Socrates
by Plato
from Penguin Classics
for 10th-Adult
in Clearance: Literature (Location: ZCLE-LIT)
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Last Days of Socrates
Penguin Classics
by Plato
from Penguin Classics
Ancient Philosophy for 9th-Adult
in Ancient Literature (Location: LIT1-ANC)
$11.90
Plato's Meno with Introduction
by Plato, translated by Benjamin Jowett
from Serenity Publishers
for 10th-Adult
in Ancient Literature (Location: LIT1-ANC)
$2.40 (3 in stock)
Republic
Dover Thrift Editions
by Plato
from Dover Publications
Ancient Philosophy/Utopian Literature for 9th-Adult
in Ancient Literature (Location: LIT1-ANC)
$4.25
Republic
by Plato
from Oxford University
Classic Literature for 9th-Adult
in Ancient Literature (Location: LIT1-ANC)
$8.46
Republic
by Plato (translation by Desmond Lee)
from Penguin Classics
Classic Literature for 9th-Adult
in Ancient Literature (Location: LIT1-ANC)
$11.05
Republic
by Plato, translated by G.M.A. Grube, revised by C.D.C. Reeve
from Hackett Publishing Company
for 10th-Adult
in Ancient Literature (Location: LIT1-ANC)
$4.00 (1 in stock)
Republic
by Plato, translated by Benjamin Jowett and illustrated by Fritz Kredel
from Easton Press
Classic Literature for 9th-Adult
in Leather Bound Collectible Books (Location: VIN-LEA)
Republic Of Plato
by Plato, translated by Alan Bloom
2nd edition from Basic Books
for 10th-Adult
in Ancient Literature (Location: LIT1-ANC)
$19.54
Six Great Dialogues
Dover Thrift
by Plato
1st edition from Dover Publications
for 10th-Adult
in Ancient Literature (Location: LIT1-ANC)
$5.95
Symposium and Phaedrus
by Plato
First Edition from Everyman's Library
for 10th-Adult
in Ancient Literature (Location: LIT1-ANC)
$7.20 (1 in stock)
Trial and Death of Socrates
Dover Thrift Editions
by Plato
from Dover Publications
Ancient Philosophy for 10th-Adult
in Ancient Literature (Location: LIT1-ANC)
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Words Aptly Spoken: Socratic Dialogues
by Plato, translated by Benjamin Jowett, compiled by Marc Hays
from Classical Conversations
for 9th-12th grade
in Words Aptly Spoken (Location: LITCUR-WAS)
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