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Plato

348 BC

Major worksRepublic, Symposium, Phaedo, Apology, Timaeus, Laws, Phaedrus

The Athenian philosopher and student of Socrates whose dialogues, including the Republic, Symposium, and Phaedo, lie at the foundation of Western philosophy. Writing almost always through the voice of Socrates, he shaped enduring questions about justice, knowledge, love, and the nature of reality so profoundly that all later thought has been called a series of footnotes to him.

Era
Classical
Region
Greece

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Plato
Edited by John M. Cooper
Philebus
Robin Waterfield
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Plato Sophist
Eva Brann, Peter Kalkavage, Eric Salem
Plato of Athens
Robin Waterfield

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