Kind of book
Philosophy
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Gorgias
A dialogue in three rounds about rhetoric and the best way to live. Socrates first questions the famous orator Gorgias, who claims rhetoric is the power to persuade…
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Memorabilia
A collection of memories of Socrates in four books by Xenophon, the Athenian soldier and writer who knew him in his youth. It begins as a defence against…
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Protagoras
A lively dialogue set at the house of the wealthy Callias, where the leading sophists of Greece have gathered. A young Athenian, Hippocrates, wants to study with Protagoras,…
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Phaedrus
A dialogue about love and about speaking well, set on a summer day under a plane tree by the river Ilissus outside Athens. Phaedrus reads out a speech…
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Theaetetus
Plato's fullest dialogue on the question 'What is knowledge?' It is framed as a conversation read aloud years later, after the young mathematician Theaetetus has been carried home…
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Timaeus
A dialogue that is mostly one long speech on the origin and structure of the universe. It opens with a recap of an ideal city and with Critias'…
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Laws
Plato's longest work and probably his last, a dialogue in twelve books said to have been left unrevised at his death. An unnamed Athenian, a Cretan and a…
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Parmenides
Plato's most puzzling dialogue, in which his own theory of forms comes under attack. It describes a meeting at Athens between a very young Socrates and the visiting…
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Sophist
A late dialogue led not by Socrates but by a visitor from Elea, who sets out to define the sophist with the young Theaetetus. Using the method of…
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Metaphysics
A collection of fourteen treatises gathered after Aristotle's death under a title meaning 'the books after the Physics'. They pursue what he calls first philosophy: the study of…
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