• See large image

  The Dialogues of Plato (Bantam Classic) (Paperback) By (author) Plato, Edited by Erich Segal

  

  $6.39 - Save $0.60 (8%) - RRP $6.99 Free delivery worldwide (to United States and
  all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours Add to basket | Add to wishlist |

  Also available in...

  Hardback $52.91

  Short Description for The Dialogues of Plato "The unexamined life is not worth living." Socrates's ancient words are still true, and the ideas sounded in Plato's "Dialogues" still form the foundation of a thinking person's education. This superb collection contains excellent contemporary translations selected for their clarity and accessibility to today's reader, as well as an incisive introduction by Erich Segal, which reveals Plato's life ...
  Full description

  • Publisher: Bantam USA
  • Published: 01 October 1994
  • Format: Paperback 342 pages
  • See: Full bibliographic data
  • Categories: Literary Essays | Western Philosophy: Ancient, To C 500
  • ISBN 13: 9780553213713 ISBN 10: 0553213717
  • Sales rank: 401,377

• The Republic

  

  Add to basket $4.42 - Save $2.59 36% off - RRP $7.01

• Symposium

  

  Add to basket $2.99 - Save $2.46 45% off - RRP $5.45

• Euthyphro

  

  Add to basket $19.96 - Save $3.39 14% off - RRP $23.35

• Statesman

  

  Add to basket $28.04 -

• Meno

  

  Add to basket $5.78 - Save $0.37 (6%) - RRP $6.15

Full description for The Dialogues of Plato

• "The unexamined life is not worth living." Socrates's ancient words are still true, and the ideas sounded in Plato's "Dialogues" still form the foundation of a thinking person's education. This superb collection contains excellent contemporary translations selected for their clarity and accessibility to today's reader, as well as an incisive introduction by Erich Segal, which reveals Plato's life and clarifies the philosophical issues examined in each dialogue. The first four dialogues recount the trial execution of Socrates--the extraordinary tragedy that changed Plato's life and so altered the course of Western though. Other dialogues create a rich tableau of intellectual life in Athens in the fourth century B.C., and examine the nature of virtue and love, knowledge and truth, society and the individual. Resounding with the humor and astounding brilliance of Socrates, the immortal iconoclast, these great works remain powerful, probing, and essential.