Plato's Dialogues rank among Western civilization's most important and influential philosophical works. With Socrates as the central disputant in a series of arguments, they probe a broad range of enduringly relevant issues. All 6 of these works feature authoritative translations by the distinguished classical scholar Benjamin Jowett.

The Republic is Plato's best-known work. It's also considered to be one of the most historically influential works on philosophy and political theory.

The Phaedo is acknowledged to be one of Plato's masterpieces, showing him both as a philosopher and as a dramatist at the height of his powers. For its moving account of the execution of Socrates, the Phaedo ranks among the supreme literary achievements of antiquity. It is also a document crucial to the understanding of many ideas deeply ingrained in western culture, and provides one of the best introductions to Plato's thought. --(Text refers to a previous edition)

The trial of Socrates refers to the trial and the subsequent execution of the Athenian philosopher Socrates in 399 BC. Socrates was tried and convicted by the courts of democratic Athens on a charge of corrupting the youth and disbelieving in the ancestral gods. The trial was described by two of Socrates' contemporaries, Plato and Xenophon, and is one of the most famous trials of all time. The trial, last days, and death of Socrates are presented in this volume through four works of Plato. These works are the Euthyphro, Apology (i.e. Defense Speech), Crito and Phaedo (Socrates' Death scene)

Professor Jowetts complete and unabridged translation of Phaedrus; including introduction and essay "On the Decline of Greek Literature".

The Republic is a Socratic dialogue written by Plato concerning the definition of justice and the order and character of the just city-state and the just man. It is Platos best-known work and has proven to be one of the most intellectually and historically influential works of philosophy and political theory. The participants discuss the theory of forms, the immortality of the soul, and the roles of the philosopher and of poetry in society.
Plato was a Greek philosopher, mathematician, writer and founder of the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world....

Timaeus and Critias includes two of Platos dialogues which were designed to be part of a trilogy. Unfortunately the philosopher did not complete the work. Timaeus and Critias utilize select men to theorize on the natural world and to tell a story of the lost city of Atlantis. Timaeus speculates on the nature of the physical world, the purpose of the universe, properties of the universe, the creation of the world soul, the elements, and the golden ratio. It is followed by the dialogue Critias, which tells the tale of the powerful island kingdom of Atlantis.
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