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Plato

Born

Athens, Greece

Genre

Philosophy

Influences

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Plato (Greek: Πλάτων), born Aristocles (c. 427 – 348 BC), was an ancient Greek philosopher of the Classical period who is considered a foundational thinker in Western philosophy and an innovator of the written dialogue and dialectic forms. He raised problems for what became all the major areas of both theoretical philosophy and practical philosophy, and was the founder of the Platonic Academy, a philosophical school in Athens where Plato taught the doctrines that would later become known as Platonism.
Plato's most famous contribution is the theory of forms (or ideas), which has been interpreted as advancing a solution to what is now known as the problem of universals. He was decisively influenced by the pre-Socratic thinkers Pythagoras, H ...more

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Average rating: 4.04 · 600,490 ratings · 25,749 reviews · 4,518 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Republic 3.96 avg rating — 216,763 ratings — published -400 — 129 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Symposium 4.09 avg rating — 83,537 ratings — published -380 — 108 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Apology by Plato, James J. Helm (Editor) 4.20 avg rating — 62,080 ratings — published -399 — 1088 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Trial and Death of Socrates by Plato, John M. Cooper, G.M.A. Grube (Translator) 4.12 avg rating — 43,710 ratings — published -400 — 397 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Five Dialogues: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo by Plato, G.M.A. Grube (Translator), John M. Cooper (Editor) 4.16 avg rating — 23,223 ratings — published -385 — 94 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Phaedo by Plato, David Gallop (Translator ), R.D. Archer-Hind (Editor) 4.07 avg rating — 15,450 ratings — published -380 — 998 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Gorgias 3.93 avg rating — 13,905 ratings — published -380 — 560 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Plato: Complete Works by Plato, John M. Cooper (Editor), D.S. Hutchinson (Editor, Translator) 4.37 avg rating — 11,887 ratings — published -347 — 118 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Phaedrus 3.95 avg rating — 10,745 ratings — published -370 — 538 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Crito 3.93 avg rating — 10,532 ratings — published -385 — 224 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by Plato

Plato's Dialogues (12 books)
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4.00 avg rating — 329,864 ratings

Диалози (5 books)
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3.97 avg rating — 223,000 ratings

Ukemi's Socratic Dialogues (7 books)
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Thomas L. Pangle (Translator/Contributor)

3.97 avg rating — 221,676 ratings

The Collected Works (4 books)
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Plato,

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4.37 avg rating — 11,990 ratings

De store tænkere (2 books)
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Plato,

John M. Cooper (Editor),

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Jonathan Barnes (Translator),

Andrew S. Becker (Translator),

Karen Bell (Translator),

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Polls

December 2022 Old School Classics Poll

The Nutcracker and the Mouse King by E.T.A. Hoffmann, 1816, 84 pp

71 votes, 37.2%

The Trial and Death of Socrates by Plato, -400, 58 pp

48 votes, 25.1%

The Prose Edda by Snorri Sturluson, 1220, 224 pp

22 votes, 11.5%

The Doctor's Wife by Mary Elizabeth Braddon, 1864, 464 pp

20 votes, 10.5%

Against Nature by Joris-Karl Huysmans, 1884, 242 pp

11 votes, 5.8%

McTeague by Frank Norris, 1899, 368 pp

10 votes, 5.2%

Michael Kohlhaas: Newly translated by Michael Hofmann by Heinrich von Kleist, 1810, 112 pp

9 votes, 4.7%

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