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In his 1934 Plato und die Dichter (Plato and the Poets), as well as several other works, Hans-Georg Gadamer describes the utopic city of the Republic as a heuristic utopia that should not be pursued or even be used as an orientation-point for political development. Rather, its purpose is said to be to show how things would have to be connected ...
The traditional division of the works of Plato into tetralogies was done by Thrasyllus of Mendes. [6] The list includes works of doubtful authenticity (in italic), as well as the Letters. 1st tetralogy Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo; 2nd tetralogy Cratylus, Theatetus, Sophist, Statesman; 3rd tetralogy Parmenides, Philebus, Symposium, Phaedrus
The text of Plato as received today apparently represents the complete written philosophical work of Plato, based on the first century AD arrangement of Thrasyllus of Mendes. [88] [89] The modern standard complete English edition is the 1997 Hackett Plato: Complete Works, edited by John M. Cooper. [90] [91]
Volume 1, Page 142 of the 1578 Stephanus edition of Plato, showing the opening of Theaetetus. Stephanus pagination is a system of reference and organization used in modern editions and translations of Plato (and less famously, Plutarch [citation needed]) based on the three-volume 1578 edition [1] of Plato's complete works translated by Joannes Serranus (Jean de Serres) and published by ...
The following is a list of the speakers found in the dialogues traditionally ascribed to Plato, including extensively quoted, indirect and conjured speakers.Dialogues, as well as Platonic Epistles and Epigrams, in which these individuals appear dramatically but do not speak are listed separately.
In Plato's Republic, the character of Socrates is highly critical of democracy and instead proposes, as an ideal political state, a hierarchal system of three classes: philosopher-kings or guardians who make the decisions, soldiers or "auxiliaries" who protect the society, and producers who create goods and do other work. [1]