Five Dialogues: Euthyphro/Apology/Crito/Meno/Phaedo (cloth)
by:
Plato (author)
G.M.A. Grube (author)
This second edition of 'Five Dialogues' presents Grube's distinguished translations, as revised by John Cooper for 'Plato: Complete Works'. A number of new or expanded footnotes are also included along with an updated bibliography.
This second edition of 'Five Dialogues' presents Grube's distinguished translations, as revised by John Cooper for 'Plato: Complete Works'. A number of new or expanded footnotes are also included along with an updated bibliography.
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Format: cloth
ISBN:
9780872206342 (0872206343)
Publish date: July 1st 2007
Publisher: Hackett Pub Co
Pages no: 156
Edition language: English
(Original Review, 2000-12-02)I'm not trying to do much more than suggest Plato isn't starting from a blank sheet but from huge trauma: the death of a way of life that produced his great teacher, Socrates, but at the same time, killed him. The jurors who vote to put Socrates to death, after listening...
While I have written commentaries on collections before I have since tried to steer away from doing that to instead write about the individual pieces contained therein. Okay, in one way it does help to bump up the number of books on my shelf, but then again that is somewhat irrelevant (It's not as i...
Socrates was the man! I cannot believe he lived almost 2400 years ago. What a brilliant thinker. Is there anyone out there today that even compares?
You know, Socrates was kindof a dick.