Essential Dialogues of Plato

Socrates and his pupil Plato are the originators of Western philosophy. Plato was the first to employ a logical framework to ask—and attempt to answer—the perennial questions about ethics politics art and life that still trouble humanity: What is virtue? This was made possible by the dialectic that developed between master and student. Just what is it? What kind of government is best? What connection does the person have to the government? Do artists have duties to society as well as to their ow...See More