The Dialogues Of Plato Annotated

Socratic dialogue is a genre of prose literary works developed in Greece at the turn of the fourth century BCE, preserved today in the dialogues of Plato and the Socratic works of Xenophon. Characters discuss moral and philosophical problems, illustrating a version of the Socratic method. The dialogues are either dramatic or narrative, and Socrates is often the main character.Works Included:CritiasCritoEryxiasEuthydemusEuthyphroIonLachesLesser HippiasLysisMenexenusMenoParmenidesPhaedoPhaedrusPhilebusProtagorasSophistStatesmanSymposium

The Republic is a Socratic dialogue, written by Plato around 380 BCE, concerning the definition of justice, the order and character of the just city-state and the just man. The dramatic date of the dialogue has been much debated and though it must take place some time during the Peloponnesian War, "there would be jarring anachronisms if any of the candidate specific dates between 432 and 404 were assigned". It is Plato's best-known work and has proven to be one of the most intellectually and historically influential works of philosophy and political theory. In it, Socrates along with various Athenians and foreigners discuss the meaning of justice and examine whether or not the just man is happier than the unjust man by considering a series of different cities coming into existence "in speech", culminating in a city (Kallipolis) ruled by philosopher-kings; and by examining the nature of existing regimes. The participants also discuss the theory of forms, the immortality of the soul, and the roles of the philosopher and of poetry in society.

At head of title: New national edition. I. The Republic, introduction and analysis.--II. The Republic.--III. The trial and death of Socrates.--IV. Charmides and other dialogues, Selections from the Laws.

Here is Plato's Dialogues, with commentary, illustrations, and thoughts throughout by D Kelsey Hayhurst. If you will read into what has been written, I suggest that you will stand a chance to walk straight through your wall.Is it unreasonable to assume that you have such a wall? Is my skin a type of wall, that holds what is in within, and hold what is out without? What sort of wall makes the border of a country? What concrete makes up the walls of a silos, hidden, underground? Did a local guy pour the stuff?Is it appropriate for me to congratulate you now, for purchasing this book? So many choices to maketoday, am I correct? What is it to find a thing that has landed in your lap? What is to be done from this point forth?If you cannot see a gift, can you at least see the gift of sight that you possess? If you can see the gift of sight that you possess, am I crazy to suggest that you do not need this book? Would this be counterproductive on my part?What is it to be crazy? Is it crazy to think clearly, to not wish to escape the self, to reject acceptance, and hone the state?Is acceptance appropriate when you have a 1:1,000,000,000 chance to exist? I "accept" another breath today, for instance?What makes up a wise man, such as Socrates? What message was translated to us over time? How does it feel to you to place another up on a pedestal? Are you capable of becoming you?Can I ask you this: Why else are you here? This is two questions, is it not?Is the pedestal somehow apart from all that is? How does it feel to stand on the pedestal and make others feel like fools?How does it feel to judge the preacher for preaching? Is it wise to judge the judge?When I feel like a fool around the wise man, am I not handing him my power to choose?What is it to be fearful? Does fear go hand in hand with the avoidance of the self?Can you see, I write these things in the chance that even one being will see? Are you such a being?Are you that one?Who around you today is not a teacher? Does your teacher need to wear a robe? Can your teacher be a cricket in a tree?Can you decide that you can decide? Do you have to read on?Where, right in this moment, is there not a miracle? For instance, you are reading, are you not?How much would Plato pay for one moment, standing in the rain, today?This book and commentary is not for everyone, am I correct?What is power? What is is to become empowered? Is it powerful to avoidyou becoming you? Can you influence yourself? What if you want to do a thing, but lackthe drive? Can you give thanks now for the possibility that you will progress?Am I preaching now? I cannot see the pedestal that separates me from you, is there such a thing?What I say to you inside this book is more of this, is that ok?What is the Trojan horse? How did it get inside the walls? What wall made up the horse itself? Where are they now?

The Theaetetus is one of Plato's dialogues concerning the nature of knowledge, written circa 369 BCE.In this dialogue, Socrates and Theaetetus discuss three definitions of knowledge: knowledge as nothing but perception, knowledge as true judgment, and, finally, knowledge as a true judgment with an account. Each of these definitions is shown to be unsatisfactory.Socrates declares Theaetetus will have benefited from discovering what he does not know, and that he may be better able to approach the topic in the future. The conversation ends with Socrates' announcement that he has to go to court to face a criminal indictment.

Phædo or Phaedo ( Phaidon, Greek pronunciation: ), also known to ancient readers as On The Soul, is one of the best-known dialogues of Plato's middle period, along with the Republic and the Symposium. The philosophical subject of the dialogue is the immortality of the soul. It is set in the last hours prior to the death of Socrates, and is Plato's fourth and last dialogue to detail the philosopher's final days, following Euthyphro, Apology, and Crito.