Philosopher and mathematician A. N. Whitehead once claimed that “the safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.” It is difficult to disagree with him. Plato wrote seminal works on ethics, political theory, morality, epistemology, and metaphysics. His concept of forms went on to have a great influence on Christian theology in the post-Apostolic period.
Plato’s works are written as a series of dialogues wherein a number of characters (the chief of which is usually Socrates) discuss various philosophical questions. By both their questions and their answers, the characters explain Plato’s various ideas. Plato’s dialogues are the best-known use of the Socratic method—that is, the use of dialogue in teaching. This collection includes Plato’s Theaetetus and Sophist, which feature discussions of knowledge, reality, and Plato’s theory of Forms. Each work is in the definitive Loeb Classical Library edition, featuring the original Greek text and a modern English translation.
The Logos edition of Plato’s works gives you the kind of intertextual connections that philosophers and theologians have dreamed of for centuries. Each volume is completely indexed and linked across all the other works in your Logos library. Logos’ powerful search functions make Plato’s dialogues vastly more accessible. In addition, names and concepts link to the other texts in your Logos library, allowing you to cross-reference and compare. See how Plato’s ideas influenced Aristotle by pulling them up side-by-side and comparing them for yourself.
