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 sufficient, proof of its genuineness. The plan is simple; the dramatic interest consists entirely in the contrast between the irony of Socrates and the transparent vanity and childlike enthusiasm of the rhapsode Ion. The theme of the Dialogue may possibly have been suggested by the passage of Xenophon's Memorabilia in which the rhapsodists are described by Euthydemus...
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 test...
Cratylus By Plato Greek Classics Translated by Benjamin Jowett Cratylus is the name of a dialogue by Plato. Most modern scholars agree that it was written mostly during Plato's so-called middle period. In the dialogue, Socrates is asked by two men, Cratylus and Hermogenes, to tell them whether names are "conventional" or "natural," that is, whether language is a system of arbitrary signs or whether words have an intrinsic relation to the things they signify. When discussing how a word would relate to its subject, Socrates compares the original creation of a word to the work of an artist. An...
Cratylus By Plato Greek Classics Translated by Benjamin Jowett Cratylus is the name of a dialogue by Plato. Most modern scholars agree that it was wri...
As with all of Plato's writings, Euthyphro is considered by many to be both a landmark in philosophy as well as a cornerstone of modern human knowledge and understanding.
As with all of Plato's writings, Euthyphro is considered by many to be both a landmark in philosophy as well as a cornerstone of modern human knowledg...
Meno, an early Platonic dialogue, centers on virtue and illustrates the classic Socratic Method. Meno begins the dialogue by asking, "Can you tell me, Socrates, can virtue be taught?" Socrates claims that to answer such a question, a person would have to know what virtue is. An incredulous Meno asks, "Socrates, do you really not know what virtue is?" Socrates responds, "Not only that, my friend, but as I believe, I have never yet met anyone else who did know." And so Socrates and Meno engage in a question-and-answer investigation of what virtue is and if it can be taught. They explore how to...
Meno, an early Platonic dialogue, centers on virtue and illustrates the classic Socratic Method. Meno begins the dialogue by asking, "Can you tell me,...
Parmenides By Plato Greek Classics Translated by Benjamin Jowett Parmenides is one of the dialogues of Plato. It is widely considered to be one of the more, if not the most, challenging and enigmatic of Plato's dialogues.The Parmenides purports to be an account of a meeting between the two great philosophers of the Eleatic school, Parmenides and Zeno of Elea, and a young Socrates. The occasion of the meeting was the reading by Zeno of his treatise defending Parmenidean monism against those partisans of plurality who asserted that Parmenides' supposition that there is a one gives rise to...
Parmenides By Plato Greek Classics Translated by Benjamin Jowett Parmenides is one of the dialogues of Plato. It is widely considered to be one of the...
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Lesser Hippias By Plato Greek Classics Translated by Benjamin Jowett Plato was a philosopher in Classical Greece. He was also a mathematician, student of Socrates, 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. In the words of A. N. Whitehead: The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato. I...
Lesser Hippias By Plato Greek Classics Translated by Benjamin Jowett Plato was a philosopher in Classical Greece. He was also a mathematician, student...
The Menexenus Socratic dialogue of Plato Greek Classics The Menexenus is a Socratic dialogue of Plato, traditionally included in the seventh tetralogy along with the Greater and Lesser Hippias and the Ion. The speakers are Socrates and Menexenus, who is not to be confused with Socrates' son Menexenus. The Menexenus of Plato's dialogue appears also in the Lysis, where he is identified as the "son of Demophon," as well as the Phaedo. The Menexenus consists mainly of a lengthy funeral oration, satirizing the one given by Pericles in Thucydides' account of the Peloponnesian War. Socrates here...
The Menexenus Socratic dialogue of Plato Greek Classics The Menexenus is a Socratic dialogue of Plato, traditionally included in the seventh tetralogy...
