![]() Plato is one of the most important Western philosophers, exerting influence on virtually every figure in philosophy after him. Along with his mentor, Socrates, and his student, Aristotle, Plato helped to lay the foundations of Western philosophy and science. Plato is a Classical Greek philosopher, mathematician, student of Socrates, writer of philosophical dialogues, and founder of the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world. Cooper is Henry Putnam University Professor of Philosophy, Princeton University. Cooper has also contributed a number of new or expanded footnotes and updated Suggestions for Further Reading. ![]() Grube's distinguished translations, as revised by John Cooper for Plato: Complete Works (Hackett, 1997). The second edition of Five Dialogues presents G.M.A. ![]() ![]() "In the revised form in which George Grube's distinguished translations appear here, they present Plato's wonderfully vivid and moving-as well as challenging-portrayal of Socrates, and of the philosophic life, in clear, contemporary, down-to-earth English that nonetheless preserves and accurately conveys the nuances of Plato's and Socrates' philosophical ideas." - from the Preface ![]()
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