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A Plato Reader: Eight Essential Dialogues (Hackett Classics) 7/29/12 Edition

by Plato (Author), C. D. C. Reeve (Editor)
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A Plato Reader offers eight of Plato's best-known works--Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo, Symposium, Phaedrus, and Republic--unabridged, expertly introduced and annotated, and in widely admired translations by C. D. C. Reeve, G. M. A. Grube, Alexander Nehamas, and Paul Woodruff.

The collection features Socrates as its central character and a model of the examined life. Its range allows us to see him in action in very different settings and philosophical modes: from the elenctic Socrates of the Meno and the dialogues concerning his trial and death, to the erotic Socrates of the Symposium and Phaedrus, to the dialectician of the Republic.

Of Reeve's translation of this final masterpiece, Lloyd P. Gerson writes, "Taking full advantage of S. R. Slings' new Greek text of the Republic, Reeve has given us a translation both accurate and limpid. Loving attention to detail and deep familiarity with Plato's thought are evident on every page. Reeve's brilliant decision to cast the dialogue into direct speech produces a compelling impression of immediacy unmatched by other English translations currently available."

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  4. Publisher
    Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.
  5. Publication date
    September 15, 2012
  6. Language
    English
  7. Dimensions
    6 x 1.25 x 8.75 inches
  8. Print length
    592 pages
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"The translations are delightful - This book will be a boon to students, and will surely be appearing on university booklists." --Heythrop Journal

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C. D. C. Reeve is Delta Kappa Epsilon Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.; 7/29/12 edition (September 15, 2012)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 592 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1603848118
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1603848114
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.27 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 1.25 x 8.75 inches
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Plato (428-348 BCE) was a philosopher and mathematician in ancient Greece. A student of Socrates and a teacher of Aristotle, his Academy was one of the first institutions of higher learning in the Western world. He is widely regarded as the father of modern philosophy.

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A. Reader
5.0 out of 5 stars Great paperback edition
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Great paperback edition. Good paper and typeface.
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5.0 out of 5 stars School book
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Purchased it for school again used and it was just as they said slightly used but very well taken care of it’s great
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5.0 out of 5 stars Book for class
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I bought this book for a class in college, it was in great condition there were no bends in any pages or anything like that. Very good book.
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Pandarilla
5.0 out of 5 stars Great collection
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Perfect starting point for Philosophy in general. Very readable dialogues
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4.0 out of 5 stars best anthology for plato
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8 dialogues in textbook font size and textbook paper weighing more than the 1.5 page aristotle anthology from modern library - you are indeed getting the premium translation but maybe the modern library or the signet plato anthology should have sufficed
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Exactly what I wanted but the book has a weird smell
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DS Thorne
5.0 out of 5 stars the Jowett translations may be free, but...
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...these ones are accurate. Stonemason or not, Socrates by no means speak like an educated Victorian. And if you must read only 8 of his many classic works, this is good enough a selection.
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Mr B
5.0 out of 5 stars Plato Reader: eight essential dialogues. Reeve
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This collection of eight dialogues contains nothing new in translation, as all the translations, have been previously published by Hackett, but it does present an excellent sample, aimed perhaps at a reader unfamiliar with Plato. The model is perhaps, the excellent, though much slimmer, ‘Five dialogues’ containing the Apology and the Phaedo, etc., in Grube’s transla If one was only going to have, as it were, one book by Plato, this would be a very good choice as it represents excellent value. tions, which Hackett have recently reissued as a second edition.

As implied, this is not slim, measuring some 23cm by 15cm by 3 cm with some 575 odd pages of which about half are devoted to the Republic (Reeve’s translation into direct speech which is very accessible). Any more pages, and Hackett would have had to produce a hardback edition, which obviously would have increased the price, and reduced their market. What other dialogues might be called essential: The Symposium and The Phaedrus – in the Nehamas/Woodruff translation; the Phaedo in the Grube translation; and the others – Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, and Meno translated by Reeve. The collection is a good interpretation of ‘essential’; to have included, for example, the Theaetetus would have made the edition too bulky, while Parmenides would have to be excluded due to its complexity compared to the others included here. To get the Grube ‘Five Dialogues’, and then the Republic, the Symposium, and the Phaedrus, in separate editions, that would cost more than this edition, and there are very good translations of those dialogues on the Market, but if one was only going to have, as it were, one book by Plato, this would be a very good choice as it represents excellent value.
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Tyler S Kenyon
5.0 out of 5 stars Essential Reading for Every Thinker
Reviewed in Canada on April 14, 2013
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I would strongly recommend these dialogues to anyone in a sincere pursuit for truth, justice, purity, beauty, etc.. Socrates is the embodiment of the examined life.
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