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In these influential dialogues—Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo, Symposium—Plato employs the dialectic method to examine the trial and death of his mentor, Socrates, and address the eternal questions of human existence.

Dialogues of Plato offers a philosophy that has guided man through the ages. In his magnificent writings, Plato, considered one of the greatest philosophers in history, examines our virtues and vices, our problems and questions. With remarkable literary grace, he shows us how man can understand his place in the world and live an intelligent and happy life. This revised edition features the complete texts of Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo, and Symposium.

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-A concise introduction that gives the reader important background information
-A chronology of the author’s life and work
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-A list of recommended related books and films to broaden the reader’s experience

Simon & Schuster Enriched Classics offer readers affordable editions of great works of literature enhanced by helpful notes and insightful commentary. The scholarship provided in Enriched Classics enables readers to appreciate, understand, and enjoy the world’s finest books to their full potential.
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Plato, one of the most renowned ancient Greek philosophers, was born in 427 B.C. to an aristocratic and wealthy family, which played a prominent part in Athenian politics. Plato in conjunction his teacher, Socrates, and his pupil, Aristotle helped to lay the foundations of Western philosophy and culture. While primarily influenced by Socrates, Plato’s work was also affected by the philosophies of Heraclitus, Parmenides, and the Pythagoreans.

Under the guidance of Socrates, Plato devoted himself to the pursuit of wisdom and upon Socrates’ death, joined a group of the Socratic disciples gathered at Megara. Later he travelled in Egypt, Magna Graecia, and Sicily. He returned to Athens and founded a school, known as the Academy, which seems to have been his home base for the remainder of his life.

While thirty-five dialogues and thirteen letters have traditionally been ascribed to Plato, modern scholarship doubts the authenticity of some of them. His early dialogues are also known as the Socratic dialogues and include Apology, Crito, Euthyphro, and Protagoras. He followed these with his transitional dialogues: Gorgias, Meno , and Euthydemus . The Symposium and the Republic are considered the centerpieces of Plato's middle period and are considered some of his most revered work, and other middle dialogues include Phaedo, Phaedrus, and Theaetetus. Plato’s Laws is the best known dialogues of his late period.

Plato died in 347 B.C.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Simon & Schuster; Enriched Classic edition (December 21, 2010)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 400 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1439169489
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1439169483
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  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 4.19 x 0.9 x 6.75 inches
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S. Walton
5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful way to enjoy Plato
Reviewed in the United States on June 28, 2014
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I have been a student of Plato for 50 years This is my first experience listening to an audiobook and I like it a great deal. However, I wish someone would do an updated translation. Benjamin Jowett is considered the gold standard in Plato translations and I don't mean to diminish his brilliance as a scholar and translator. But in listening format, it would be nice to have an updated translation that was a bit less formal and more in line with current conversational style.

If you're not familiar with Plato, you're in for a treat. As philosophers go, he's easy to understand and the dialogues are humorous, suspenseful, poignant and thoroughly entertaining. But most of all, Plato introduces us to the Perfect Forms, or Ideas, which are spiritual realities which are actually structured in human consciousness. By realizing and understanding these ideas, Plato argues that we hold the keys to a happy and harmonious life, both in this world and the next.
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Lauren Wiedebush
5.0 out of 5 stars Perfect
Reviewed in the United States on September 28, 2020
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Marron Grosbek
4.0 out of 5 stars after all these years, not as amazing as advertised
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This CD-rom set contains Plato's dialogs, which are really about Socrates and his conversations with friends. Socrates is brought before a court of his peers in Athens, some of whom (we are told) unjustly accuse him of not believing in the right gods and misleading youth.

The story is very one-sided, but heck, so is the new Testament. I find many parallels between Socrates' and Jesus' stories. Plato wrote this 400 years before Jesus was born, so we can't accuse Plato of plagiarism.

The most important lesson in these dialogues is the Socratic method. Very useful in all parts of life if you want to sell an idea. First ask your "customer" some very basic questions to which the only conceivable answer is, "yes." Plato is pretty pedantic, making Socrates build up to his point only very slowly -- I can't imagine how his straight men could be so patient during the build up. Then, when you have momentum, ask them some less obvious questions with plausible (if not convincing) arguments that lead to your point. Out of habit they say, "yes." Finally, you make your point and the customer is painted into a corner. His only choice is to agree with Socrates or to unravel the conversation, resulting in the customer losing face.

Plato (Socrates) makes ontological arguments about the existence of gods, that the soul survives after death, and that the soul experiences reincarnation (most of the time). The philosophy of reincarnation reminds me a great deal of far-eastern philosophy, which was a great surprise.

It is a useful read, but I was hardly moved by Plato's arguments. In light of the birth of science and philosophical advances made in 2 millennia (e.g. we now think slavery is uncool), his philosophical arguments are quite naive.

I hear there are arguments about whether this particular translation is the best. I thought it was fine. I can see where the translator made word choices that make Plato's dialogues more accessible to those with modern christian education, but it is easy to ignore.

The reader is pleasant to listen to, and makes the dialog lively.
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maria aymar
5.0 out of 5 stars Great job
Reviewed in the United States on September 11, 2013
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Thank you very much for shipping just in time for class! I truly appreciate it and look forward to using it this semester..
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Megan
2.0 out of 5 stars Two Stars
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bland book for me and it was in awful condition
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James A Swanson
3.0 out of 5 stars Add voices.
Reviewed in the United States on November 15, 2017
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Would be better product with different voices to the dialogue.
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Justin L. Hardegree
5.0 out of 5 stars excellent shape
Reviewed in the United States on January 11, 2009
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better than i expected considering it was a penny. through this book i learned more about how powerful philosophy can be than in my intro to philosophy course
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judyth gerichter
5.0 out of 5 stars excellent
Reviewed in Canada on August 5, 2023
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I bought the book for my husband, he is very happy with it.
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John Wick
5.0 out of 5 stars 5 Stars only for the content of the book
Reviewed in India on February 16, 2017
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5 Stars for the book's content:
Outstanding content, a must read for those who like to read the spiritual literature.

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It's a worst printing I have purchased in ages. So overly priced for such poor printing. extremely small font, worst page quality (dirty yellowish pages), extremely rough, the width and height of the book is not of standard format and it's very difficult to manage to keep it in hands for longer duration. If possible, go for some other publication of this title if available, I desperately wanted to read it and thus didn't search enough about the printing quality.
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sheetal kale
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent
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Elliot Wilson
5.0 out of 5 stars very good text, excellent annotations and introduction.
Reviewed in Canada on October 10, 2013
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accurate translations. has annotations that explain the text if you don't understand a part of it. only complainet is the bindding is really weak and these dialouges are free online. however at this price i cant complain.
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Alex Zozin
2.0 out of 5 stars Book in terrible state
Reviewed in Germany on September 7, 2023
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The book is in a bad state. Don`t know where it was stored and for how long but there is definitely too much humidity there.
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