Dave Ross

All posts tagged Plato

Plato (born c. 428–423 BC, died 348/347 BC) was an ancient Greek philosopher of Classical Athens who is most commonly considered the foundational thinker of the Western philosophical tradition. An innovator of the literary dialogue and dialectic forms, Plato influenced all the major areas of theoretical philosophy and practical philosophy, and was the founder of the Academy, a philosophical school in Athens where Plato taught the collection of philosophical theories that would later become known as Platonism.

Republic

The revised edition of Grube’s classic translation of Plato’s Republic follows and furthers Grube’s noted success in combining fidelity to Plato’s text with natural readability while reflecting the fruits of new scholarship and insights into Plato’s thought since the publication of the first edition in 1974. Divided into ten books, each book of The “Republic” addresses different aspects of the ideal state. In Book I, Socrates engages in a dialogue with several characters, including Glaucon and Adeimantus, to examine the...

Read more →