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...thin the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Plato’s “Apology,” the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classi... ...ennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. Apology By Plato Translated by Benjamin Jowett Socrates’ Defense How you have felt, ... ... who had a brother Theages; and Adeimantus the son of Ariston, whose brother Plato is present; and Aeantodorus, who is the brother of Apollodorus, who... ..., I think that I could afford a minae, and therefore I propose that penalty; Plato, Crito, Critobulus, and Apollodorus, my friends here, bid me say th... ...Which is better God only knows. Apology 25 If you would like to read more of Plato s Dialogues, go to http://www2.hn.psu.edu/faculty/jmanis/plato.htm....

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...Laws (Greek: Νόμοι) is Plato's last and longest dialogue. It is generally agreed that Plato wrote this dialogue as an older man, having failed in his effort in Syracuse on the island of Sicily to guide a tyrant's rule, instead having been thrown in...

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...thin the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Plato’s “Charmides, or T emperance,”translated by Benjamin Jowett, the P... ... University is an equal opportunity university. CHARMIDES, OR TEMPERANCE by Plato Translated by Benjamin Jowett PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE : Socrates, w... ...ries. Then, when there had been enough of this, I, in my turn, “Charmides” – Plato 3 began to make enquiries about matters at home—about the present ... ... was such a paragon, if he has only one other slight addition. “Charmides” – Plato 4 What is that? said Critias. If he has a noble soul; and being of... ... stood the nature of love, when, in speaking of a fair youth, “Charmides” – Plato 5 he warns some one ‘not to bring the fawn in the sight of the lio... ...ch I learned when serving with the army from one of the physi “Charmides” – Plato 6 cians of the Thracian king Zamolxis, who are said to be so skilf... ...ch is given by the charm; and this, as you say, is temperance? “Charmides” – Plato 7 Yes, I said. Then let me tell you that he is the most temperate ... ...at I am temperate: but, on the other hand, if I say that I am, “Charmides” – Plato 8 I shall have to praise myself, which would be ill manners; and t... ...in. And in playing the lyre, or wrestling, quickness or sharp “Charmides” – Plato 9 ness are far better than quietness and slowness? Yes. And the sa...

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...The Republic is a Socratic dialogue by Plato, written in approximately 380 BC. It is one of the most influential works of philosophy and political theory, and arguably Plato's best known work. In it, Socrates and various other Athenians and foreigners discuss the ...

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...he famous sophist Gorgias and his followers. It is a work likely completed around the time of Republic and illuminates many of the spiritual ideas of Plato. The spirituality, as Jowett points out in his wonderful introduction, has many ideas akin to Christianity, but is more generous as it reserves damnation only for the tyrants of the world. Some of the truths of Socrates...