Platon - The Complete Plato

Plato (Greek: Pltn, "wide, broad-shouldered") (428/427 BC 348/347 BC) was an ancient Greek philosopher, the second of thegreat trio of ancient Greeks Socrates, Plato, originally namedAristocles, and Aristotle who between them laid the philosophicalfoundations of Western culture. Plato was also a mathematician,writer of philosophical dialogues, and founder of the Academy inAthens, the first institution of higher learning in the westernworld. Plato is widely believed to have been a student of Socratesand to have been deeply influenced by his teacher's unjust death.Plato's brilliance as a writer and thinker can be witnessed byreading his Socratic dialogues. Some of the dialogues, letters, andother works that are ascribed to him are considered spurious. Platois thought to have lectured at the Academy, although thepedagogical function of his dialogues, if any, is not known withcertainty. They have historically been used to teach philosophy,logic, rhetoric, mathematics, and other subjects about which hewrote. Source: Wikipedia

This publication was adapted from the web edition published byeBooks@Adelaide (http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/p/plato/), which ispart of the online ebook library of The University of AdelaideLibrary at the University of Adelaide in South Australia. That edition was rendered into HTML by Steve Thomas and the workswere last updated in either 2003, 2006, or 2007. Thedialogues of Plato in the web edition are reproduced in thiscompilation under a Creative Commons License, and ergo thispublication falls under the same license. The Englishtranslations by Benjamin Jowett were originally featured inJowett's own 3rd Edition of the Dialogues of Plato in 1891, andtoday may be found at multiple websites throughout theInternet. The University of Adelaide Library is located onNorth Terrace in Adelaide, South Australia 5005, AUSTRALIA. It may be reached by telephone (+61 8 8303 5372), fax (+61 8 83034369), or email (ebooks@adelaide.edu.au). The license(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/au/) states thefollowing:

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