Signet, January 2015. Mass Market Paperback. "Plato is philosophy, and philosophy, Plato."--Emerson The Republic and other great dialogues by the immortal Greek philosopher Plato are masterpieces that form part of the most important single body of writing in the history of philosophy. Beauty, love, immortality, knowledge, and justice are discussed.....

Oxford University Press, May 2008. Trade Paperback. The central work of one of the West's greatest philosophers, The Republic of Plato is a masterpiece of insight and feeling, the finest of the Socratic dialogues, and one of the great books of Western culture. This new translation captures the dramatic realism.....

Penguin Classics, September 2007. Trade Paperback. Plato's The Republic is widely acknowledged as the cornerstone of Western philosophy. Presented in the form of a dialogue between Socrates and three different interlocutors, it is an inquiry into the notion of a perfect community and the ideal individual within it. During the.....

Basic Books, November 2016. Trade Paperback. Translated and with an interpretive essay by Allan Bloom. Introduced by. Translated and with an interpretive essay by Allan Bloom. Introduced by. The definitive translation of Plato's Republic, the most influential text in the history of Western philosophy. "To read The Republic as Bloom.....

Oxford University Press, January 2009. Trade Paperback. In his celebrated masterpiece, Symposium, Plato imagines a high-society dinner-party in Athens in 416 BC. The guests--including the comic poet Aristophanes and Plato's mentor Socrates--each deliver a short speech in praise of love. The sequence of dazzling speeches culminates in Socrates' famous account.....