Benjamin Jowett Translator: 28 books

Gorgias is an important Socratic Dialogue in which Plato sets the rhetorician, whose specialty is persuasion, in opposition to the philosopher, whose specialty is dissuasion, or refutation. The art of persuasion was necessary for political and legal advantage in classical Athens, and rhetoricians promoted...

A Platonic dialogue about living a life of pleasure. The Philebus appears to be one of the later writings of Plato, in which the style has begun to alter, and the dramatic and poetical element has become subordinate to the speculative and philosophical. In the development of abstract thought great...

A dialogue of Plato in which Socrates discusses temperance and self-control.

Plato's dialogue on the nature language and words.

Plato's dialogue on the nature of the physical world and humankind.

Plato's dialogue addressing the ideal of virtue, and particular virtues such as justice and temperance.

Plato's dialogue between Parmenides and Zeno of Elea, in which the nature of divinity is argued, together with a young Socrates.

Plato's longest dialogue is a philosophical discussion on the nature of politics, government and ethics.

A dialogue of Plato addressing the true nature of rhetoric, and in which he argues that philosophy is an art.

Plato's dialogue on the nature of a sophist, and the differences between them and statesmen and politicians. Includes and inttoduction and analysis.

A dialogue of Plato in which he addresses the Sophists and their view on education.

Plato's dialogue on the nature of the physical world and humankind.

Plato's dialogue that addresses the death of Socrates.

A dialogue in which the nature of virtue is discussed.