A Plato Reader: Eight Essential Dialogues (Hackett Classics) - Hardcover

Plato

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1603848126 ISBN 13: 9781603848121

Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company, 2012

Synopsis

A Plato Reader offers eight of Plato's best-known works-- Euthyphro , Apology , Crito , Meno , Phaedo , Symposium , Phaedrus , and Republic --unabridged, expertly introduced and annotated, and in widely admired translations by C. D. C. Reeve, G. M. A. Grube, Alexander Nehamas, and Paul Woodruff. The collection features Socrates as its central character and a model of the examined life. Its range allows us to see him in action in very different settings and philosophical modes: from the elenctic Socrates of the Meno and the dialogues concerning his trial and death, to the erotic Socrates of the Symposium and Phaedrus , to the dialectician of the Republic . Of Reeve's translation of this final masterpiece, Lloyd P. Gerson writes, Taking full advantage of S. R. Slings' new Greek text of the Republic, Reeve has given us a translation both accurate and limpid. Loving attention to detail and deep familiarity with Plato's thought are evident on every page. Reeve's brilliant decision to cast the dialogue into direct speech produces a compelling impression of immediacy unmatched by other English translations currently available.

About this title

Review:

The translations are delightful - This book will be a boon to students, and will surely be appearing on university booklists. --Heythrop Journal

About the Author:

C. D. C. Reeve is Delta Kappa Epsilon Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

About this edition

• Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1603848126
• ISBN 13: 9781603848121
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 592