Plato Books

New and Published Books

1. Plato's Dialectic on Woman

   Equal, Therefore Inferior

   By Elena Blair

   Series: Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies

   With the birth of the feminist movement classicists, philosophers, educational experts, and psychologists, all challenged by the question of whether or not Plato was a feminist, began to examine Plato’s dialogues in search of his conception of woman. The possibility arose of a new focus affecting...

   Published May 20th 2012 by Routledge
2. Plato

   Plato: The Written and Unwritten Doctrines

   By John Niemeyer Findlay

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   J.N. Findlay, distinguished scholar and acknowledged expert on Plato, argues persuasively for a new interpretation of the Platonic writings. He believes that Plato's Unwritten Doctrines were present in the background of all the great philosopher's mature written work. With the use of Aristotelian...

   Published October 29th 2011 by Routledge
3. Plato

   By Robert Hall

   First published in 1981 this unique study discusses the evolution of Plato's thought through the actual developments in Athenian democracy, the book also demonstrates Plato's continuing responses to changes in political theory and argues for a new understanding of Plato's goals for the state and...

   Published September 14th 2011 by Routledge
4. Plato - Arguments of the philosophers

   By Gosling

   Published October 9th 2008 by Routledge
5. Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Plato and the Trial of Socrates

   By Thomas C. Brickhouse, Nicholas D. Smith

   Series: Routledge Philosophy GuideBooks

   Socrates is one of the most influential philosophers in western civilisation, and Plato his most famous pupil. The Euthyphro, Apology of Socrates, Crito and the death scene from the Phaedo are Plato's account of Socrates' trial and execution, and together they provide the most important depiction...

   Published May 5th 2004 by Routledge
6. Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Plato and the Republic

   2nd Edition

   By Nickolas Pappas

   Series: Routledge Philosophy GuideBooks

   Plato's Republic is perhaps the most significant and important work of philosophy and is Plato's most famous work. No other work has made such an impact on the history of western thought.In this second edition of the highly successful Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Plato and the Republic,...

   Published June 25th 2003 by Routledge
7. From the Beginning to Plato

   Routledge History of Philosophy Volume 1

   Edited by C.C.W. Taylor

   Series: Routledge History of Philosophy

   This first volume in the series traces the development of philosophy over two-and-a-half centuries, from Thales at the beginning of the sixth century BC to the death of Plato in 347 BC....

   Published March 26th 2003 by Routledge
8. Plato: Critical Assessments

   Edited by Nicholas D. Smith

   Series: Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers

   The philosophy of Plato, universally acknowledged as the most important thinker of the Ancient World, is a major focus of contemporary attention - not only among philosophers, but also classicists and literary and political theorists. This set selects the best and most influential examples of...

   Published March 11th 1998 by Routledge
9. Routledge History of Philosophy Volume I

   From the Beginning to Plato

   Edited by C. C. W. Taylor

   Series: Routledge History of Philosophy

   Volume 1 of the Routledge History of Philosophy covers one of the most remarkable periods in human thought. In the space of two and a half centuries, philosophy developed from quasi-mythological speculation to a state in which many of the most fundamental questions about the universe, the mind and...

   Published January 22nd 1997 by Routledge
10. Plato's Meno In Focus

    Edited by Jane M. Day

    Series: Philosophers in Focus

    In one volume, this book brings together a new English translation of Plato's Meno, a selection of illuminating articles on themes in the dialogue published between 1965 and 1985 and an introduction setting the Meno in its historical context and opening up the key philosophical issues which the...

    Published December 15th 1993 by Routledge