Plato: The Complete Works (31 Books)

Plato (428/427–348/347 BCE) was a Greek philosopher and mathematician of the Classic Age who founded the Academy of Athens. Noted as a student of Socrates, Plato has distinguished himself as one of the founders of Western philosophy by recording the teachings of his master and his own philosophies in 35 dialogues and 13 letters (some are disputed as spurious).

This collection contains the following works by Plato:

All books translated by Benjamin Jowett

Part 1: Early Dialogues

The Apology

Crito

Charmides

Laches

Lysis

Euthyphro

Menexenus

Ion

Gorgias

Protagoras

Meno

Part 2: Middle Dialogues

Euthydemus

Cratylus

Phaedo

Phaedrus

The Symposium

Theaetetus

Parmenides

Part 3: Late Dialogues

Sophist

Statesman

Philebus

Timaeus

Critias

Part 4: The Republic

I: Of Wealth, Justice, Moderation, and their Opposites

II: The Individual, the State, and Education

III: The Arts in Education

IV: Wealth, Poverty, and Virtue

V: On Matrimony and Philosophy

VI: The Philosophy of Government

VII: On Shadows and Realities in Education

VIII: Four Forms of Government

IX: On Wrong or Right Government, and the Pleasures of Each

X: The Recompense of Life

Part 5: The Laws

Books I–XII