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The Essential Plato: Apology, Symposium, and The Republic Kindle Edition

by Plato (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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Three Socratic dialogues by the ancient Greek philosopher who established the foundations of Western thought.
 
Apology: In this classic text, Plato recounts the trial of his mentor Socrates, who stands accused of rejecting the gods and corrupting the youth of Athens. As recounted by Plato, Socrates defends himself with a profound examination of integrity, citizenship, the nature of truth, and the role of a philosopher.
 
Symposium: Here Plato depicts a group of Athenian intellectuals discussing the nature of desire. One after another, Agathon, Aristodemus, Eryximachus, Pausanias, and Aristophanes share their perspectives on gender, love, sexuality, and human instincts. The dialogue culminates in the radical views of Socrates, who advocates transcendence through spiritual worship.
 
The Republic: Plato’s magnum opus is a wide-ranging and deeply influential meditation on society as a whole. Plato explores the concept of justice, the connection between politics and psychology, the difference between words and what they represent, and the roles of art and education, among many other topics.
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B08M3S12Z3
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Open Road Media (November 3, 2020)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ November 3, 2020
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 10418 KB
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  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 817 pages
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Plato (428-348 BCE) was a philosopher and mathematician in ancient Greece. A student of Socrates and a teacher of Aristotle, his Academy was one of the first institutions of higher learning in the Western world. He is widely regarded as the father of modern philosophy.

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Dave (D.J.) Butler
5.0 out of 5 stars The Purple Plato
Reviewed in the United States on October 15, 2002
The main body of this book is organized similarly Pharr's justly famous "Purple Vergil": each two page spread has 12-25 lines of Greek in the upper left, with the rest of the spread full of line-by-line notes covering difficult constructions, slang, vocabulary and context. This makes Plato wonderfully accessible with a minimum of flipping pages back and forth.
The book's three appendices are (I) a series of sentence diagrams useful for understanding difficult sentences in the text and also as models for learning, (II) an alphabetical chart of verb principal parts and (III) a list of words appearing in the Apology by frequence of their appearance. Finally, a vocabulary of all words appearing at list twice fills in the back of the book (the vocabulary, incidentally, is keyed to the _Athenaze_ textbooks, which I suppose would be a useful feature if you used those books).
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Mark
2.0 out of 5 stars Probably not the edition you want
Reviewed in the United States on June 27, 2016
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This is not the newer revised edition which is light blue in color and has probably 50 more pages of notes on the Greek. The original Greek is still the same, but it does not give you nearly as much help as the later revised edition. So if you are just learning Greek you want the newer "revised edition".
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