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1) Gorgias
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One of the middle or transitional dialogues of the ancient Greek philosopher Plato, "Gorgias" depicts a dinner gathering attended by Socrates and a group of sophists. Gorgias, a foreigner, has been drawn to Athens by its cultural and intellectual sophistication. In this dialogue Plato contrasts Gorgias, the rhetorician, with Socrates, the philosopher, whose differing specialties are persuasion and refutation, respectively. As Plato delves into arguments...
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The European philosophical tradition... consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.-Alfred North Whitehead
The dialogues of Plato stand alongside the Bible and Homer's Iliad and Odyssey as foundational texts of Western civilization. The works of Plato collected under the title The Trial and Death of Socrates have been particularly influential. This is because they provide both an excellent point of entry into Plato's vast philosophy and a vivid portrait...
3) Apology
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"Apology" is the famous account of the trial of Socrates. Plato's dialogue presents the charges brought against Socrates by the people of Athens and lays out the arguments that the accused presented in his defense. Socrates was accused of corrupting the youth of the city with his radical ideas and of impiety against the pantheon of the Athenian gods, or more specifically, of not believing in the gods of the city and believing instead in no gods or...
4) Ion
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Extrait: "SOCRATE: Salut à Ion. D'o nous reviens-tu cette fois? d'Ephèse, ton pays? ION: Pas du tout, Socrate, d'Epidaure, des fêtes d'Asclépios. SOCRATE: Est-ce que les Epidauriens font aussi un concours de rhapsodes en l'honneur du dieu? ION: Mais oui, et de toutes les parties de la musique aussi."
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Extrait : "J'allais de l'Académie directement au Lycée par la route extérieure qui longe les murs. Parvenu à la petite porte o se trouve la source de Panops, je rencontrai là Hippothalès, fils d'Hiéronyme et Ctésippe de Paenie, et avec eux un groupe nombreux d'autres jeunes gens."
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Two important dialogues offer crucial insights into mystical and aesthetic aspects of Platonic doctrine. Symposium attempts to find the ultimate manifestation of the love that controls the world, leading to mystic union with eternal and supercosmic beauty. Phaedrus discusses the psychology of love, resulting in the concept of the familiar Platonic "forms" as objects of transcendental emotion.
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Extrait : "SOCRATE : Mon cher Phèdre, o vas-tu donc, et d'o viens-tu ? PHEDRE : De chez Lysias, fils de Céphale, Socrate, et je vais me promener hors des murs ; car je suis resté longtemps chez lui, toujours assis depuis le matin, et suivant les prescriptions d'Acoumène, ton ami et le mien, je fais mes promenades sur les routes ; car il prétend qu'on s'y délasse mieux que dans les galeries couvertes."
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Extrait : "L'AMI DE SOCRATE : D'o viens-tu, Socrate ? sans doute de la chasse, de la chasse à la beauté d'Alcibiade , A dire vrai, je l'ai vu il n'y a pas longtemps, et je trouve que c'est toujours un bel homme, mais un homme pourtant, soit dit entre nous, Socrate, et déjà bien barbu."
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Extrait : "APOLLODORE : Je crois être assez bien préparé à vous faire le récit que vous demandez. Dernièrement en effet, comme je montais de Phalère, o j'habite, à la ville, un homme de ma connaissance, qui venait derrière moi, m'aperçut et m'appelant de loin : "Hé ! l'homme de Phalère, Apollodore, s'écria-t-il en badinant, attends-moi donc." Je m'arrêtais et l'attendis."
10) Laws
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A lively dialogue between a foreign philosopher and a powerful statesman, Plato's Laws reflects the essence of the philosopher's reasoning on political theory and practice. It also embodies his mature and more practical ideas about a utopian republic. Plato's discourse ranges from everyday issues of criminal and matrimonial law to wider considerations involving the existence of the gods, the nature of the soul, and the problem of evil. This translation...
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A utopia is an imagined community or society that possesses highly desirable or nearly perfect qualities for its citizens. The term was coined by Sir Thomas More for his 1516 book Utopia, describing a fictional island society in the south Atlantic Ocean off the coast of South America. The opposite of a utopia is a dystopia, which dominates the fictional literature. Dystopian fiction (sometimes combined with, but distinct from, apocalyptic fiction)...
12) Timaeus
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Of all the writings of Plato the Timaeus is the most obscure and repulsive to the modern reader, and has nevertheless had the greatest influence over the ancient and mediaeval world. The obscurity arises in the infancy of physical science, out of the confusion of theological, mathematical, and physiological notions, out of the desire to conceive the whole of nature without any adequate knowledge of the parts, and from a greater perception of similarities...
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