Plato was a philosopher in Classical Greece and the founder of the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world. He is widely considered the most pivotal figure in the development of philosophy, especially the Western tradition. Unlike nearly all of his philosophical contemporaries, Plato's entire œuvre(Body of work) is believed to have survived intact for over 2,400 years.
Plato was the innovator of the dialogue and dialectic forms in philosophy, which originate with him. Plato appears to have been the founder of Western political philosophy, with his Republic, and Laws among other dialogues, providing some of the earliest extant treatments of political questions from a philosophical perspective. Plato's own most decisive philosophical influences are usually thought to have been Socrates, Parmenides, Heraclitus and Pythagoras, although few of his predecessors' works remain extant and much of what we know about these figures today derives from Plato himself
This collection contains the following works by Plato:
Early Works
• Apology
• Charmides, or Temperance
• Crito
• Euthyphro
• Gorgias
• Hippias, Lesser
• Hippias, Greater
• Ion
• Laches
• Lysis
• Protagoras
Transitional Works
• Cratylus
• Euthydemus
• Meno
• Parmenides
• Phaedo
• Phaedrus
• Symposium
• The Republic
Middle Works
• Theaetetus
Late Works
• Critias
• Laws
• Philebus
• Sophist
• Statesman
• Timaeus
Works of Disputed Authorship
• Alcibiades I & II
• Eryxias
• Menexenus
• Theages
Plato was the innovator of the dialogue and dialectic forms in philosophy, which originate with him. Plato appears to have been the founder of Western political philosophy, with his Republic, and Laws among other dialogues, providing some of the earliest extant treatments of political questions from a philosophical perspective. Plato's own most decisive philosophical influences are usually thought to have been Socrates, Parmenides, Heraclitus and Pythagoras, although few of his predecessors' works remain extant and much of what we know about these figures today derives from Plato himself
This collection contains the following works by Plato:
Early Works
• Apology
• Charmides, or Temperance
• Crito
• Euthyphro
• Gorgias
• Hippias, Lesser
• Hippias, Greater
• Ion
• Laches
• Lysis
• Protagoras
Transitional Works
• Cratylus
• Euthydemus
• Meno
• Parmenides
• Phaedo
• Phaedrus
• Symposium
• The Republic
Middle Works
• Theaetetus
Late Works
• Critias
• Laws
• Philebus
• Sophist
• Statesman
• Timaeus
Works of Disputed Authorship
• Alcibiades I & II
• Eryxias
• Menexenus
• Theages
