Plato's complete works (with search)
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Description
Plato was a Classical Greek philosopher, mathematician, writer of philosophical dialogues, and founder of the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world. Along with his mentor, Socrates, and his student, Aristotle, Plato helped to lay the foundations of natural philosophy, science, and Western philosophy.
Plato's sophistication as a writer is evident in his Socratic dialogues; thirty-five dialogues and thirteen letters have traditionally been ascribed to him, although modern scholarship doubts the authenticity of at least some of these.
The dialogues since Plato's time have been used to teach a range of subjects, mostly including philosophy, logic, rhetoric, mathematics, and other subjects about which he wrote.
Most common tradition regarding the arrangement of Plato's texts is according to tetralogies.
To simplify study of Plato's works the application supports full text search within all included texts. This is very useful when you need to find a quote or information on a particular subject but don't know where you should looking for.
The application contains following Plato’s works:
TETRALOGY I
• Euthyphro
• Apology
• Crito
• Phaedo
TETRALOGY II
• Cratylus
• Theaetetus
• Sophist
• Statesman
TETRALOGY III
• Parmenides
• Philebus
• Symposium
• Phaedrus
TETRALOGY IV
• First Alcibiades
• Second Alcibiades
• Hipparchus
• Lovers
TETRALOGY V
• Theages
• Charmides
• Laches
• Lysis
TETRALOGY VI
• Euthydemus
• Protagoras
• Gorgias
• Meno
TETRALOGY VII
• Greater Hippias
• Lesser Hippias
• Ion
• Menexenus
TETRALOGY VIII
• Cleitophon
• The Republic
• Timaeus
• Critias
TETRALOGY IX
• Minos
• Laws
• Epinomis
• Epistles
What's New In Version 1.0.2
- iPhone OS 3.1 compatibility fixes
Customer Reviews
Text is not a book
No line breaks or paragraph organization make the text difficult and unpleasant to read. The first chapter of The Republic, for example, is a single paragraph.
One MAJOR complaint
If you're actually thinking of buying this app, you're probably either a major, MAJOR philosophy nut or you're a grad student or professor who specializes in ancient. So the cons are that these translations are all the public domain ones. No Joe Sachs or Reeve or Nichols, etc. But whatever, you already own those and you're just thinking it'd be neat to have Plato on your device for quick reference if needed when no books are around. And it is. It rules. The huge drawback, and it should be easy to fix I hope, is that there are no Stephanus pages! Argh! Fix that and you have 5 stars. We need the Stephanus pages. We must have the Stephanus pages. Give them to us. Since all translations differ, it will at times be more convenient to search the text with the Stephanus pages rather than an English word. Yes, I say, give us the Stephanus pages.
It's not the ideas that are lacking...
I'm missing Cratylus, it's just a blank white page. Oh, and you have to love Apple, if your "nickname" is taken when you submit you get to rewrite your review.
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$4.99
- Category: Books
- Updated:Oct 20, 2009
- Current Version:1.0.2
- 1.0.2
- 10.7 MB
- Language:English
- Seller:Igor Zhadanov
- © 2009 Readdle.com
Requirements:Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iPhone OS 2.2.1 or later.
