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The Collected Dialogues of Plato : Including The Letters / Edited by Edith Hamilton and Huntington Cairns ; With a new foreword by Rebecca Newberger Goldstein.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Bollingen series ; v. 71.
- Bollingen Series ; LXXI
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Philosophy, Ancient.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxix, 1743 pages)
- Edition:
- New paperback edition, with a new foreword.
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 2025.
- Summary:
- ";The Platonic Forms of the Platonic dialogues.";—Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, author of Plato at the Googleplex For the first time in paperback, the landmark one-volume edition of the complete writings of PlatoThis classic one-volume edition of the complete writings of Plato is now available in paperback for the very first time. The editors, Edith Hamilton and Huntington Cairns, chose the contents from the work of the best modern British and American translators. The volume contains prefatory notes to each dialogue, by Hamilton; an introductory essay on Plato’s philosophy and writings, by Cairns; and a comprehensive index with cross references. In a new foreword, acclaimed philosopher and novelist Rebecca Newberger Goldstein describes Plato’s unparalleled importance to philosophy down to the present day, why he chose the artful form of the dialogue, and what makes this edition of his writings special.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Contents
- Editorial Note
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Socrates' Defense (Apology)
- Crito
- Phaedo
- Charmides
- Laches
- Lysis
- Euthyphro
- Menexenus
- Lesser Hippias
- Ion
- Gorgias
- Protagoras
- Meno
- Euthydemus
- Cratylus
- Phaedrus
- Symposium
- Republic
- Theaetetus
- Parmenides
- Sophist
- Statesman
- Philebus
- Timaeus
- Critias
- Laws
- Appendix
- Epinomis
- Greater Hippias
- Letters
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-691-26443-0
- OCLC:
- 1503842813
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