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Dewey Decimal Number: 184 Format: Kindle Book Label: Signet Classics Manufacturer: Signet Classics Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 656 Publication Date: March 04, 2008 Publisher: Signet Classics Release Date: March 04, 2008 Studio: Signet Classics Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: "In Rouse's pages, Soctrates' strength of mind, his dedication to the philosophical truth, are borne in on the modern reader with something of the power that impressed and disturbed the ancient Greeks."--Time Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Plato is great, but this translation is notThere is no point in trying to detract from the works of Plato themselves; anyone who is buying a collection of his dialogues is already convinced of his preeminence in Western philosophy. This translation, however, is honestly lousy, and it surprises me how well it seems to have been received. Though I have some training in philosophy (an undergraduate degree) I'm certainly not an ancient philosophy expert, and I found no difficulty in reading Jowett, and I imagine the average reader ... Read More Rating:  - From Nietzsche to Plato... a modern view.I have to say that Having started this after reading Kaufman's translation of "Thus Spoke Zarathustra" I have an equal love for the treatment by W.H.D. Rouse in the dialogs. For a beginning philosophy student you can't really do any better than this excellent translation done in (fairly) modern english. (There's versions of this text dating from the 1950's here on amazon.) For the serious student it's an intelligent idea to read more than one translation because there will always be differences and ... Read More Rating: - Great collection/translation but bad print quality.The translation and collection is admirable, but the quality of this Signet paperback I received is very cheap looking. For some reason it just seems crammed and most pages seem like they are typed in bold and others normal. Sometimes there will be a diagonal bolding of a page (like a line of bold going through from top left to bottom right) to the point where an "a" will have the entire bottom filled in. Not sure if I got a bad copy, but this isn't something I've ever noticed in a book before. This also ... Read More Rating: - GoodThe book was delivered fast and in excellent conditions. I recommend doing business with this member. Rating: - Great introduction to the philosophies of Plato and SocratesLove him or hate him (and there are plenty who feel both ways), Plato is essential reading for anyone interested in Western thought. So much so that A. N. Whitehead made the famous, if controversial, comment that "all of philosophy is but a series of footnotes to Plato." Even if that's a bit over the top, Plato is still simply one of those "must reads," for philosophy in particular, and for the humanities in general. Plato raised questions about virtue, justice, love, government, god, society, epistemology ... Read More 
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