Authors:Plato Plato, Benjamin Jowett,
Publisher: Forgotten Book
Keywords: books, forgotten, crito
Number of Pages: 30
Published: 2008-02-16
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 160506999X
ISBN-13: 9781605069999

"The Crito is a short but important dialogue by the ancient Greek philosopher Plato. It is a conversation between Socrates and his wealthy friend Crito regarding justice (dike), injustice (adikia), and the appropriate response to injustice. Socrates thinks that injustice may not be answered with injustice, and refuses Crito’s offer to finance his escape from prison. This dialogue contains an ancient statement of the social contract theory of government.The dialogue begins with Socrates waking up to the presence of Crito in his prison cell. When Socrates expresses surprise that the guard

Authors:Plato Plato, Benjamin Jowett,
Publisher: Forgotten Book
Keywords: books, forgotten, philebus
Number of Pages: 124
Published: 2008-02-20
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ISBN-10: 1606200119
ISBN-13: 9781606200117

"Philebus is among the last of the late Socratic dialogues of the ancient Greek philosopher Plato. Socrates is the primary speaker in Philebus, unlike in the other late dialogues. The other speakers are Philebus and Protarchus.The dialogue’s central question concerns the relative value of pleasure and understanding, and produces a model for thinking about how complex structures are developed. Socrates begins by summarizing the two sides of the dialogue:Philebus was saying that enjoyment and pleasure and delight, and the class of feelings akin to them, are a good to every living being, wh

Authors:Plato Plato, Benjamin Jowett,
Publisher: Forgotten Book
Keywords: books, forgotten, euthyphro
Number of Pages: 40
Published: 2008-02-20
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 1606200011
ISBN-13: 9781606200018

"Euthyphro is one of Plato’s early dialogues, dated to after 399 BC. It features Ancient Greek philosopher Socrates and Euthyphro, a man known for being a religious expert. They attempt to pinpoint a definition for piety.The dialogue is set near the king-archon’s court, where the two men encounter each other. They are both there for preliminary hearings before possible trials.Euthyphro has come to lay murder charges against his father, as his father had allowed one of his workers to die without proper care and attention. The worker had killed a slave belonging to the family estate

Author: Plato Wilhelm Plato
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Keywords: books, forgotten, theaetetus
Number of Pages: 138
Published: 2008-02-16
List price: $7.64
ISBN-10: 1606200178
ISBN-13: 9781606200179

The Theaetetus is one of Plato’s dialogues concerning the nature of knowledge. The framing of the dialogue begins when Euclides tells his friend Terpsion that he wrote a book many years ago based on what Socrates told him of a conversation he had with Theaetetus when he was quite a young man. Euclides had seen Theaetetus being carried off the battlefield with a case of dysentery and a minor war wound. Euclides says that Socrates correctly prophesied that Theaetetus would become a notable man if he lived long enough. The dialogue is read aloud to the two men by a slave boy in the employ o

Author: Plato Wilhelm Plato
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Keywords: books, forgotten, laws
Number of Pages: 354
Published: 2008-02-20
List price: $10.24
ISBN-10: 1606200054
ISBN-13: 9781606200056

The Laws is Plato’s last and longest dialogue. The question asked at the beginning is not "What is law?" as one would expect- that is the question of the Minos. The kick-off question is rather, "Who is given the credit for laying down your laws?"It is generally agreed that Plato wrote this dialogue as an old man, having failed in his effort in Syracuse on the island of Sicily to guide a tyrant’s rule, instead having been thrown in prison. These events are alluded to in the Seventh Letter.Unlike most of Plato’s dialogues, Socrates does not appear in the Laws. This is fitting b

Author: Plato Wilhelm Plato
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Keywords: books, forgotten, phaedo
Number of Pages: 108
Published: 2008-02-20
List price: $7.28
ISBN-10: 1606200097
ISBN-13: 9781606200094

Plato’s Phaedo is one of the great dialogues of his middle period, along with the Republic and the Symposium. The Phaedo is also Plato’s fifth and last dialogue (the first four being Euthyphro, Apology, Crito and Meno) which details the final days of Socrates and contains the scene of his death. The dialogue is told from the perspective of one of Socrates’ students, Phaedo of Elis. Having been present at Socrates’ death bed, Phaedo relates the dialogue to Echecrates, a fellow philosopher.In the dialogue set forth in the Phaedo, Socrates discusses the nature of the after

Author: Plato Wilhelm Plato
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Keywords: books, forgotten, friendship, lysis
Number of Pages: 54
Published: 2008-02-20
List price: $6.64
ISBN-10: 1606200062
ISBN-13: 9781606200063

Lysis is one of the socratic dialogues written by Plato and discusses the nature of friendship.The main characters are Socrates, the boys Lysis and Menexenus who are friends, as well as Hippothales, who is in unrequited love with Lysis. Socrates proposes several possible notions regarding the true nature of friendship: Friendship between like and like; friendship between unlike and unlike; friendship between neither-good-nor-bad and good in the presence of evil.In the end, Socrates discards all these ideas as wrong. While no definite conclusion is reached, it is suggested that the common pursu