Plato: Five Dialogues

Content is great, but it is hardly 150 pages, and the cost is 1300 INR. Extremely costly.

Higly recommended for all the readers interested in philosophy

Overpriced by atleast 40%.

Everyone should read this book at some point in their life. The Socratic method is an approach to life where one must challenge social norms and ideals, including morality, that we often readily accept without knowledge of origin and history, and sometimes even the meaning of such norms and ideals. We are at such a critical time where we all must challenge everything we see, hear, think, feel, and share with one another. The facade is broad, and it is powerful. And, it grows by the day. The future is not ours to see. It is ours to question. This book helped put me on track to challenging my thoughts and morals, and everytime I pick it up again, it reminds me to be ever so careful of guarding my mind, because we are prone to fallacies and simplified truths, as well as what we are surrounded by. The world is not what it once was, but was it ever any such way that challenging ouraelves to introspection and trusting in gut intuition wasn't absolutely necessary?

This is the ideal introduction to Plato and to Socrates. Four of the works lead up to the death of Socrates. We first find Socrates, who has just been informed that he's to be prosecuted for impiety, meeting the priest Euthyphro and discussing the nature of piety. In the Apology, Socrates presents his defence in court. After his conviction, his friend Crito visits him in prison and they reflect on justice. Finally, Phaedo describes how Socrates spoke on the nature of the soul with his friends just before his execution. In the extra dialogue, Socrates and Meno discuss the virtue and knowledge. This is a good, readable translation and well-printed.

helemaal prima, broerneef. Fijne vertaling, lekker aanvoelende, dunne bladzijdes, en goede voetnoten.

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My son loved reading this.