Benjamin Jowett Translator: 28 books

Book cover of Symposium (Mobi Classics)
by Plato,Benjamin Jowett (Translator)
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010

The Symposium is a philosophical dialogue written by Plato sometime after 385 BC. It is a discussion on the nature of love, taking the form of a group of speeches, both satirical and serious, given by a group of men at a symposium or a wine drinking gathering at the house of the tragedian Agathon at...
Book cover of Menexenus
by Plato, Benjamin Jowett (Translator)
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2014

A funeral oration by Plato. The Menexenus or Funeral Oration is cited by Aristotle, and is interesting as supplying an example of the manner in which the orators praised 'the Athenians among the Athenians,' falsifying persons and dates, and casting a veil over the gloomier events of Athenian history....
Book cover of Lysis
by Plato, Benjamin Jowett (Translator)
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2014

A dialogue of Plato which addresses the ideal and nature of friendship.
Book cover of Laches

Laches

Or, Courage

by Plato, Benjamin Jowett (Translator)
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014

A socratic dialogue by Plato which analyses the concept of courage.
Book cover of Statesmen
by Plato, Benjamin Jowett (Translator)
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2014

A dialogue discussing the essential nature of a statesman, as opposed to a sophist or philosopher.
Book cover of The Laws (Mobi Classics)
by Plato,Benjamin Jowett (Translator)
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010

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 first question is rather, "Who is given the credit for laying down your laws?"It is generally agreed that Plato wrote this dialogue...
Book cover of Sophist (Mobi Classics)
by Plato,Benjamin Jowett (Translator)
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010

The Sophist is one of the late Dialogues of Plato, which was written much later than the Parmenides and the Theaetetus, probably in 360 BC. After he criticized his own Theory of Forms in the Parmenides, Plato proceeds in the Sophist with a new conception of the Forms, more mundane and down-to-earth,...
Book cover of Apology, Or; The Death Of Socrates (Mobi Classics)
by Plato,Benjamin Jowett (Translator)
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010

(The) Apology (of Socrates) is Plato's version of the speech given by Socrates as he defends himself against the charges of being a man "who corrupted the young, did not believe in the gods, and created new deities". "Apology" here has its earlier meaning (now usually expressed by the word "apologia")...
Book cover of Parmenides (Mobi Classics)
by Plato,Benjamin Jowett (Translator)
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010

Parmenides is one of the dialogues of Plato. It is perhaps Plato's most challenging dialogue, as well as one of the most challenging works of philosophy ever written.The Parmenides purports to be an account of a meeting between the two great philosophers of the Eleatic school, Parmenides and Zeno...
Book cover of Euthydemus (Mobi Classics)
by Plato,Benjamin Jowett (Translator)
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010

Euthydemus (Euthydemos), written 380 BCE, is dialogue by Plato which satirizes the logical fallacies of the Sophists. It describes a visit paid by Socrates and various youths to two brothers, Euthydemus and Dionysodorus, both of whom are prominent Sophists. The main purpose of Euthydemus is to contrast...
Book cover of Protagoras (Mobi Classics)
by Plato,Benjamin Jowett (Translator)
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010

Protagoras is a dialogue of Plato. The main argument is between the elderly Protagoras, a celebrated sophist, and Socrates. The discussion takes place at the home of Callias, who is host to Protagoras while he is in town, and concerns a familiar theme in the dialogues: the teachability of virtue. The...
Book cover of Statesman (Mobi Classics)
by Plato,Benjamin Jowett (Translator)
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010

The Statesman, or Politikos in Greek and Politicus in Latin, is a four part dialogue contained within the work of Plato.The text is a dialogue between Socrates and his student Theodorus, another student named Socrates (referred to as Young Socrates), and an unknown philosopher expounding the ideas of...
Book cover of Phaedrus (Mobi Classics)
by Plato,Benjamin Jowett (Translator)
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010

The Phaedrus, written by Plato, is a dialogue between Plato's main protagonist, Socrates, and Phaedrus, an interlocutor in several dialogues. The Phaedrus was presumably composed around 370 BC, around the same time as Plato's Republic and Symposium; with those two texts, it is often considered...
Book cover of Phaedo (Mobi Classics)
by Plato,Benjamin Jowett (Translator)
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010

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....
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