By Plato
“Allen’s paintings is especially impressive. The translations are readable, lucid, and hugely accurate. the overall advent is succinct and very clear. The dialogue of the courting of the dialogues is drastically helpful; there has formerly been no short account of those matters to which one can refer the student. ultimately, the actual introductions are good: tremendous jobs of transparent philosophical and old explanation—succinct and but refined, either with regards to the textual content and philosophically incisive.”—Martha Nussbaum, Brown University
“This is a crucial paintings that merits our recognize and attention.”—Ethics
“This and the promised succeeding volumes will most likely develop into the normal English model of the total dialogues…. The commentaries benefit from the simplest scholarship, pass judgement on judiciously among divergent perspectives, and infrequently introduce new and fantastic interpretations. this can be precise either within the region of philosophy and in that of literary criticism.”—Anthony C. Daly, S.J., Modern Schoolman
“Allen is an excellent translator, whose elegantly easy but specific language supplies entry to Plato either as a thinker and as a literary artist.”—Library Journal
“An very important occasion on this planet of scholarship.”—London assessment of Books
R.E. Allen is professor of classics and philosophy at Northwestern University.
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Cooper joined the faculty in 1965, when Shuford accepted an appointment at the University of Houston. Some years later, in 1968, when Toland became Dean of the Graduate School, Robert Baird was added to the departmental faculty. When Cooper assumed an administrative post in 1979, Stuart Rosenbaum was appointed to a position in the department. It was through Kilgore's initiative that the J. Newton Rayzor Seminar Room was established, appropriately remodeled, and appointed with especially designed oak tables.
Philosophers, seeking wisdom, may inevitably be somewhat alienated and vulnerable, in contemporary society as in ancient society. It is our hope that this volume, testifying as it does to the effort and impact of one such philosopher, Jack Kilgore, is evidence that philosophers, seeking wisdom, may also be persons of community and solidarity. <><><><><><><> The editors wish to express appreciation to Dr. Herbert Reynolds, President of Baylor University, whose encouragement and support made this project possible; to Dr.
The book has been used as a text in over one hundred institutions. Two other areas that have attracted his teaching interests have been Greek Philosophy and American Philosophy. The present volume is evidence of the quality of philosophical interest he engendered in his students. His primary concern was not to have them become specialists in Greek philosophy; it was, rather, to heighten their awareness of basic philosophical issues and to work with those issues in a thorough, professional manner.