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by: Plato
List Price: $52.00Amazon.com's Price: $43.97 You Save: $8.03 (15%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 184
EAN: 9780872203495
ISBN: 0872203492
Label: Hackett Publishing Company
Manufacturer: Hackett Publishing Company
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 1808
Publication Date: 1997-05
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company
Sales Rank: 9280
Studio: Hackett Publishing Company
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Rating:  - Bad advertizing by Amazon + One major work missing anyway
This CD contains most of Plato's work (translated in English) as a bunch of PDF files that you can just read off the CD or simply copy on your hard disk. I don't even remember an installation program.
You ought to be aware of the following issues.
1. This CD (ISBN: 9568351787) is NOT an electronic version of the book to which Amazon links has been linking it so far: the paper book edited by Cooper and Hutchinson. This snaffu may not be the CD publisher's fault, however. ... Read More
Rating:  - Nice for the Price
Nice quality book overall... Pages are super-thin, Bible-style, and the binding is medium-high quality... but it's the Complete Works for under 50 bucks!
Rating:  - Great Collection
I have not yet finished this book, but so far it appears to be a great collection for those interested in philosophy. The topics it covers are varying and very different from other books I have read. An example of this is that one of the "books" is a discussion of names and their relation to the things that they name. That is something that I have not been introduced to yet in my studies and it is good to get a broader knowledge of such things. However, I think that this book will most be enjoyed ... Read More
Rating: - a must-have
Highly recommended for any reader or thinker. The complete work of Plato, with helpful footnotes on translations and culture. Easy to navigate through, considering the size, and the margins leave enough space for highlighed scribbles and your own notes. Great price for even greater product, one that you will surely refrence multiple times.
Rating: - This is the business!
This is the edition of Plato that you would have as required reading on an English medium Greek philosophy course. All the texts are translated and annotated by the relevant experts. In an ideal world you would have some kind of interlinear translation provided from the original Greek on the page facing the Greek translation, rather like the Interlinear New Testament as well as the translation into English prose. But then it would be incredibly expensive and very big I suppose.
Anyway if ... Read More
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