By Plato
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A Plato Reader bargains 8 of Plato's best-known works--Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo, Symposium, Phaedrus, and Republic--unabridged, expertly brought and annotated, and in commonly favorite translations through C. D. C. Reeve, G. M. A. Grube, Alexander Nehamas, and Paul Woodruff.
The assortment positive factors Socrates as its principal personality and a version of the tested lifestyles. Its diversity permits us to determine him in motion in very diverse settings and philosophical modes: from the elenctic Socrates of the Meno and the dialogues bearing on his trial and loss of life, to the erotic Socrates of the Symposium and Phaedrus, to the dialectician of the Republic.
Of Reeve's translation of this ultimate masterpiece, Lloyd P. Gerson writes, "Taking complete benefit of S. R. Slings' new Greek textual content of the Republic, Reeve has given us a translation either actual and limpid. Loving consciousness to element and deep familiarity with Plato's inspiration are obvious on each web page. Reeve's fabulous choice to solid the discussion into direct speech produces a compelling influence of immediacy unrivaled by means of different English translations at present available."
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You see, the people present on each occasion think that I’m wise about the subjects on which I examine others. But in fact, gentlemen, it’s pretty certainly the god who is really wise, and by his oracle he meant that human wisdom is worth little or nothing. ” So even now I continue to investigate these things and to examine, in response to the god, any person, citizen, or foreigner I believe to be wise. Whenever he seems not to be so to me, I come to the assistance of the god and show him that he’s not wise.
I’d therefore have been acting scandalously, men of Athens, if, when I’d been stationed in Potidea, Amphipolis, or Delium17 by the leaders you had elected to lead me, I had, like many another, remained where they’d stationed me and run the risk of death. But if, when the god stationed me here, as I became thoroughly convinced he did, to live practicing philosophy, examining myself and others, I had—for fear of death or anything else—abandoned my station. That would have been scandalous, and someone might have rightly and justly brought me to court for not acknowledging that gods exist, by disobeying the oracle, fearing death, and thinking I was wise when I wasn’t.
And if anyone says that he learned something from me or heard something in private that all the others didn’t also hear, you may be sure he isn’t telling the truth. 32d 32e 33a 33b 20 When Athens was defeated by Sparta in 404 BCE, its democratic government was replaced by a brutal oligarchy, the so-called Thirty Tyrants, which survived barely eight months. Two members of the Thirty—Critias and Charmides—were relatives of Plato and appear as Socratic interlocutors in the dialogues named after them.
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