The essential works and Socratic dialogues of Plato as translated by Benjamin Jowett. Introduction by Alain de Botton. Including the complete text of Plato's most notable philosophies: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo, Symposium, The Republic, and Laws This compendium also features commentary, introductions and analysis from Jowett on Plato's philosophies. Plato was a Greek philosopher born in Athens during the Classical period in Ancient Greece. He founded the Platonist school of thought and the Academy, the first institution of higher learning on the European continent. Plato was an innovator of the written dialogue and dialectic forms in philosophy. He raised problems for what later became all the major areas of both theoretical philosophy and practical philosophy. Along with his teacher, Socrates, and his student, Aristotle, Plato is a central figure in the history of Ancient Greek philosophy and the Western and Middle Eastern philosophies descended from it. He has also shap