The Complete Works of Plato
Exploring Virtue and Truth in Plato's DialoguesBy Plato
Length140h 34m
About this audiobook
The Complete Works of Plato represents a profound synthesis of Western philosophy, encompassing dialogues that explore ethics, politics, metaphysics, and epistemology. Through his distinctive method of dialectical inquiry, Plato employs a range of literary styles'Äîfrom engaging narratives and dialogues to allegorical and philosophical expositions. This compilation includes seminal texts such as "The Republic," in which he articulates his vision of an ideal society governed by philosopher-kings, and "The Symposium," a profound examination of love and beauty. The contextual framework of these works reflects the tumultuous political landscape of ancient Athens and Plato's responses to the Socratic tradition. Plato, a student of Socrates and a teacher to Aristotle, emerges as one of history's foundational philosophers. His life, shaped by the socio-political upheavals of his time'Äîincluding the Peloponnesian War and the downfall of Athenian democracy'Äîdeeply influenced his writings. His creation of the Academy, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world, showcases his commitment to philosophical inquiry and education, which are hallmarks in his works. Readers seeking to understand the philosophical underpinnings of Western civilization will find in The Complete Works of Plato an indispensable resource. It offers not only an exploration of essential themes that resonate across centuries but also a blueprint for critical thinking and reflective practice. This collection is essential reading for anyone engaged in the pursuit of wisdom and a deeper understanding of the human condition.
Audiobook details
Rating★★★★ 4.5 (13.4K)
Includes Goodreads, Amazon
GenrePhilosophy
Length140 hrs 34 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 31, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Preface to the First Edition
26Text (pt. 2)
2Preface to the Second and Third Editions
27Introduction
3Introduction
28Text
4Socrates' Defence
29Introduction
5Introduction
30Text (pt. 1)
Show all chaptersShow less
6Crito or The Duty of a Citizen
31Text (pt. 2)
7Introduction
32Introduction
8Charmides or Temperance
33Text
9Introduction
34Introduction
10Text
35Text
11Introduction
36Introduction
12Text
37Text (pt. 1)
13Introduction
38Text (pt. 2)
14Text
39Introduction
15Introduction
40Text
16Text
41Introduction
17Introduction
42Text
18Text
43Introduction and Analysis (pt. 1)
19Introduction
44Introduction and Analysis (pt. 2)
20Laches or Courage
45Introduction and Analysis (pt. 3)
21Introduction
46Introduction and Analysis (pt. 4)
22Lysis or Friendship
47Introduction and Analysis (pt. 5)
23Introduction (pt. 1)
48Persons of the Dialogue
24Introduction (pt. 2)
49Book I Of Wealth, Justice, Moderation, and Their Opposites
25Text (pt. 1)
50Book II The Individual, The State, and Education
THE COMPLETE WORKS OF PLATOPlato141h 50m4.5 (15.6K)$1.99 · $0.00
THE COMPLETE WORKS OF PLATOPlato141h 54m4.5 (14.8K)$1.99 · $0.00
Plato's RepublicPlato17h 55m4.1 (273K)$2.99 · $0.00
The True SocratesPlato, Xenophon, Samuel Griswold Goodrich16h 12m$1.99 · $0.00
ApologyPlato1h 16m4.3 (125.2K)$10 · $0.00
The Complete Harvard Classics - All 51 Volumes in One EditionPlato, Marcus Aurelius, William Shakespeare, Benjamin Franklin, Homer, Friedrich von Schiller, William Makepeace Thackeray, John Ruskin, Robert Louis Stevenson, Edgar Alan Poe, Henry David Thoreau, Voltaire, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Immanuel Kant, Thomas Hobbes, John Woolman, William Penn, Epictetus, Francis Bacon, John Milton, Thomas Browne, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Burns, Saint Augustine, Thomas à Kempis, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Pliny the Younger, Adam Smith, Charles Darwin, Plutarch, Virgil, Miguel de Cervantes, John Bunyan, Izaak Walton, Aesop, Wilhelm Grimm, Jacob Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen, John Dryden, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, David Garrick, Oliver Goldsmith, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Robert Browning, George Gordon Byron, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Christopher Marlowe, Dante Alighieri, Alessandro Manzoni, Richard Henry Dana, Edmund Burke, John Stuart Mill, Thomas Carlyle, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Pierre Corneille, Jean Racine, Molière, Philip Sidney, Abraham Cowley, Joseph Addison, Richard Steele, Jonathan Swift, Daniel Defoe, Samuel Johnson, David Hume, Sydney Smith, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Hazlitt, Leigh Hunt, Charles Lamb, Thomas De Quincey, Thomas Babington Macaulay, James Russell Lowell, Michael Faraday, Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz, Simon Newcomb, Archibald Geikie, Benvenuto Cellini, Michel de Montaigne, Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve, Ernest Renan, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Giuseppe Mazzini, Herodotus, Tacitus, Francis Drake, Philip Nichols, Francis Pretty, Walter Bigges, Edward Haies, Walter Raleigh, René Descartes, Jean Froissart, Thomas Malory, William Henry Harrison, Niccolo Machiavelli, William Roper, Thomas More, Martin Luther, John Locke, George Berkeley, Hippocrates, Ambroise Paré, William Harvey, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Joseph Lister, Louis Pasteur, Thomas Dekker, Ben Jonson, Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, John Webster, Philip Massinger, Blaise Pascal, William A. Neilson987h 1m4.4 (2.5K)$0.99 · $0.00
The Real Socrates (Annotated)Plato, Xenophon, Samuel Griswold Goodrich16h 22m$2 · $0.00
The Complete Works of Plato (Annotated)Plato141h 48m4.5 (3.1K)$2 · $0.00
SymposiumPlato4h 52m4.2 (110.7K)$1 · $0.00
MenexenusPlato2h 20m3.5 (895)$2 · $0.00
Platoons Phaidoon : Uit het Grieksch overgebrachtPlato3h 13m$1 · $0.00
GorgiasPlato7h 47m4.2 (29.3K)$2 · $0.00
THE COMPLETE WORKS OF PLATOPlato141h 25m4.5 (15.3K)$1 · $0.00
MenoPlato1h 29m4.1 (12.5K)$2 · $0.00
LachesPlato2h 30m3.8 (1.6K)$2 · $0.00
PhilebusPlato5h 19m4.1 (1.4K)$1 · $0.00
CritoPlato1h 58m4.1 (17.6K)$1 · $0.00
Lesser HippiasPlato1h 5m3.7 (1.1K)$2 · $0.00
The Ultimate Atlantis Collection (Six-Book Edition)Plato, Francis Bacon, Ignatius Donnelly, C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne, William Scott-Elliot39h 20m3.6 (19)$0.99 · $0.00
WitnessAriel Burger8h 1m4.6 (1.3K)$20 · $0.00
The Magic PresenceGodfré Ray King10h 21m4.6 (307)$1.20 · $0.00
The Art of LivingThich Nhat Hanh5h 1m4.5 (14.2K)$24 · $0.00
Moral Letters to LuciliusLucius Annaeus Seneca24h 26m4.5 (71.7K)$0.99 · $0.00
Lessons in TruthH. Emilie Cady3h 50m4.5 (2.4K)$20 · $0.00
Letters from a StoicSeneca6h 5m4.4 (80.4K)$6 · $0.00
The Discourses of EpictetusP. E. MATHESOM12h 47m4.4 (17.7K)$1.20 · $0.00
IlluminationsWalter Benjamin10h 12m4.4 (16.2K)$20 · $0.00
That Bird Has My WingsJarvis Jay Masters9h 49m4.4 (13.7K)$29 · $0.00
Tâo Teh KingLaozi2h 34m4.4 (230.9K)$2 · $0.00
SymposiumPlato3h 26m4.4 (97.9K)$1.20 · $0.00
Buddhist Boot CampTimber Hawkeye2h 39m4.4 (8.4K)$18 · $0.00
Enchiridion & The Discourses of Epictetus (Annotated)Arrian Epictetus18h 9m4.4 (3.5K)$2 · $0.00
The Meditations of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius AntoninusEmperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius5h 41m4.4 (1.8M)$1 · $0.00
Crime and PunishmentFyodor Dostoevsky23h 11m4.4 (1.3M)$12 · $0.00
MeditationsMarcus Aurelius5h 52m4.4 (433.7K)$1 · $0.00
Everyday DharmaSuneel Gupta5h 2m4.5 (761)$20 · $0.00
The Joyful Wisdom ("La Gaya Scienza")Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche11h 37m4.4 (26.6K)$1 · $0.00
The Art of LivingEpictetus, Sharon Lebell3h 16m4.4 (50.1K)$18 · $0.00
MeditationsEmperor Of Rome Marcus Aurelius7h 23m4.3 (477.5K)$1.20 · $0.00
You may also like
Doing HarmMaya Dusenbery13h 33m4.4 (9.1K)$23
The Spiritual BrainMario Beauregard, Denyse O'Leary12h 15m4.0 (724)$29 · $0.00
Bartleby and MeGay Talese8h 45m4.1 (593)$29 · $0.00
Lesser HippiasPlato1h 5m3.7 (1.1K)$2 · $0.00
Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of MoralsImmanuel Kant3h 21m4.0 (23.8K)$3.50 · $0.00
Socrates in 90 MinutesPaul Strathern1h 19m3.7 (1.5K)$7
Beyond Good and EvilFriedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche6h 34m4.2 (139.3K)Free
CritoPlato1h 58m4.1 (17.6K)$1 · $0.00
That’s Not in My American History BookThomas Ayres7h 58m3.9 (1.4K)$17
Truth Worth TellingScott Pelley16h 8m4.6 (2.3K)$33 · $0.00
The Mystique of Enlightenment (Summarized Edition)U. G. Krishnamurti3h 11m4.4 (349)$2
The Day I Became a RunnerSohini Chattopadhyay13h 28m4.4 (405)$33 · $0.00
The Purpose of the PastGordon S. Wood10h 47m4.0 (648)$21
Defining Moments in Black HistoryDick Gregory7h 37m4.4 (6K)$26 · $0.00
Tertium Organum: The Third Canon of ThoughtP. D. Ouspensky14h 48m4.3 (688)$0.99 · $0.00
Apologia Pro Vita Sua (Annotated)John Henry Newman15h 21m4.3 (4.4K)$2 · $0.00
GorgiasPlato6h 7m4.1 (17.1K)Free
On the Genealogy of MoralityFriedrich Nietzsche4h 31m4.3 (72.5K)Free
The Consolations of PhilosophyAlain de Botton6h 4m4.1 (57.5K)$14
2024Unknown Author20h 26m$46 · $0.00