Plato's Gorgias

An oral dramatization of Plato's dialogue in modern English. Professional actors play the characters of Socrates, Callicles, Gorgias, Chaerephon, and Polus. Plato's Gorgias treats many of the fundamental issues in human life, including the nature of goodness, how to lead a good life, the proper place of pleasure and pain in ethical thinking, the role of the ruler in the social and political realm, and the proper use of punishment. The dialogue begins with a discussion between Socrates and Gorgias about the nature and proper function of rhetoric, and it ends with a vision of what awaits us after death. 

Politics & Social Sciences

PLATO

Albert A. Anderson

Philosophy

Agora Pubns

An unabridged oral dramatization of Plato's dialogue in modern English. Professional actors play the characters of Socrates, Euthyphro, Meletus, and Crito. These dialogues are among the best known philosophical works of all time. In dramatic terms, they form a trilogy. The first shows Socrates in action as he enters the courthouse for his own trial. He meets Euthyphro, who has come to indict his own father for murder, and Socrates questions him about the nature of justice and his grounds for taking action against his father. Then Socrates' defense emerges as he answers the charges that he is an atheist and that he has corrupted young people through his kind of education. Finally, in the Crito Socrates is offered a chance to escape from Athens and avoid the death sentence imposed by his fellow citizens. He and Crito discuss the wisdom of going into exile and probe the ultimate foundations of law.

Plato's Euthyphro, Apology & Crito (Theater of the Mind)

Literature & Fiction

Dramas & Plays

An oral dramatization of Plato's dialogues in modern English. Professional actors play the characters of Socrates, Cephalus, Glaucon, Thrasymachus, Adeimantus, Cleitophon, and Polemarchus. Regarded as Plato's most comprehensive dialogue, The Republic treats ethics, politics, epistemology, metaphysics, and the arts. The conversation begins with attempts to define the nature of justice, centering on Thrasymachus' explanation of justice as power. Then Plato's brothers, Glaucon and Adeimantus, propose a social contract theory of values, challenging Socrates to defend justice as intrinsically good. The investigation continues in an effort to imagine a society in which true justice can be manifested.

Plato's Republic, Books One & Two

Christian Books & Bibles

Anderson, Albert A.

Theology

Plato's Ion & Meno

An unabridged oral dramatization of Plato's dialogues in modern English. Professionally trained actors play the characters of Socrates, Ion, Meno, and Anytus. They enact Socrates' comic but serious discussion with Ion, the prize-winning interpreter of Homer, about the nature of his art and the source of human creativity. In part two, Meno and Socrates probe the source of goodness by considering the hypothesis that all knowledge is recollection.

An unabridged oral dramatization of Plato's dialogues in modern English. Professionally trained actors play the characters of Socrates, Ion, Meno, and Anytus. They enact Socrates' comic but serious discussion with Ion, the prize-winning interpreter of Homer, about the nature of his art and the source of human creativity. In part two, Meno and Socrates probe the source of goodness by considering the hypothesis that all knowledge is recollection.

Self-Help

Creativity

A selection of declarations on the topic of freedom and human  dignity.

Declarations of Freedom and Human Dignity

Krueger, Donald

Constitutional Law

A dramatization of Plato's dialogue in modern English. Plato's Gorgias treats many of the fundamental issues in human life, including the nature of goodness, how to lead a good life, the proper place of pleasure and pain in ethical thinking, the role of the ruler in the social and political realm, and the proper use of punishment. The dialogue begins with a discussion between Socrates and Gorgias about the nature and proper function of rhetoric, and it ends with a vision of what awaits us after death.

A dramatization of Plato's dialogue. Regarded as Plato's most comprehensive dialogue, The Republic treats ethics, politics, epistemology, metaphysics, and the arts. The conversation begins with attempts to define the nature of justice, centering on Thrasymachus' explanation of justice as power. Then Plato's brothers, Glaucon and Adeimantus, propose a social contract theory of values, challenging Socrates to defend justice as intrinsically good. The investigation continues in an effort to imagine a society in which true justice can be manifested.

Politics & Government

Socrates, Glaucon, and Adeimantus are discussing the best way to educate leaders for a just republic. In the course of their dialogue, the meaning of justice in individuals and in society shifts from external order imposed through rules and regulations to the harmony and balance internal to every person in the republic. Only then will an individual be ready to actwhether in acquiring wealth, in the care of the body, or in any public or private affairs.

Plato's Republic, Books Three & Four

Plato's Republic (complete)

In book form, Plato’s Republic is widely considered to be the single most significant work in Western philosophy. In creating this dramatized edition, we consider Plato to be a teacher who wrote in the dialogue form as a means of challenging his students to think deeply about how to live the best possible life. Consider this hypothesis: Plato wrote each book of The Republic to be performed by actors playing the characters of Socrates, Glaucon, Adeimantus, Thrasymachus, and the others. When Book One was performed, he then invited his students—the brightest and best young people in Athens—to respond to each and every argument, issue, and question posed by the characters. Rather than passively listening, they were lured into the process and challenged to evaluate and improve on the ideas presented in the performance. Based on their responses, Plato then wrote Book Two. The same process was repeated, and Book Three was generated. In this way all ten books evolved as part of a dynamic and creative dialectic intended to take place in the souls of each and every participant—including Plato himself. That would also mean that the work is not yet finished, because each new participant joins in the ongoing process of interpretation and evaluation. In that way Plato’s ideas are inscribed in the medium of the soul, which continues to live. Agora Publications, Inc. invites you to join in this same drama that has been playing for more than 2400 years.

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Plato's Gorgias

Plato's Euthyphro, Apology & Crito (Theater of the Mind)

Plato's Republic, Books One & Two

Plato's Ion & Meno

Plato's Ion & Meno

Declarations of Freedom and Human Dignity

Plato's Gorgias

Plato's Republic, Books One & Two

Plato's Republic, Books Three & Four

Plato's Republic (complete)