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The Republic (Paperback)
by (shelved 201 times as plato)
avg rating 3.97 — 228,653 ratings — published -400
The Symposium (Paperback)
by (shelved 147 times as plato)
avg rating 4.09 — 92,083 ratings — published -380
Apology (Paperback)
by (shelved 104 times as plato)
avg rating 4.19 — 68,456 ratings — published -399
Phaedrus (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as plato)
avg rating 3.96 — 11,552 ratings — published -370
Gorgias (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as plato)
avg rating 3.94 — 14,950 ratings — published -380
Euthyphro (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as plato)
avg rating 3.95 — 10,531 ratings — published -399
The Trial and Death of Socrates (Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo)
by (shelved 69 times as plato)
avg rating 4.13 — 46,590 ratings — published -400
Theaetetus (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as plato)
avg rating 4.11 — 6,628 ratings — published -369
Protagoras (Hackett Classics)
by (shelved 46 times as plato)
avg rating 3.91 — 3,879 ratings — published -390
Sophist (Hackett Classics)
by (shelved 41 times as plato)
avg rating 4.05 — 3,335 ratings — published -360
Five Dialogues: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as plato)
avg rating 4.16 — 24,556 ratings — published -385
Charmides (Hackett Classics)
by (shelved 34 times as plato)
avg rating 3.53 — 1,643 ratings — published -390
The Laws of Plato (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as plato)
avg rating 4.06 — 2,997 ratings — published -360
Parmenides (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as plato)
avg rating 4.00 — 3,116 ratings — published -340
Philebus (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as plato)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,037 ratings — published -360
Plato: Complete Works (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as plato)
avg rating 4.37 — 12,086 ratings — published -347
Cratylus (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as plato)
avg rating 3.63 — 1,686 ratings — published -350
The Statesman (Texts in the History of Political Thought)
by (shelved 22 times as plato)
avg rating 3.80 — 1,036 ratings — published -360
Euthydemus (Hackett Classics)
by (shelved 20 times as plato)
avg rating 3.67 — 860 ratings — published -384
Plato: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as plato)
avg rating 3.57 — 1,244 ratings — published 2003
Timaeus and Critias (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as plato)
avg rating 3.82 — 2,202 ratings — published -360
Lesser Hippias (ebook)
by (shelved 15 times as plato)
avg rating 3.51 — 866 ratings — published -390
Hippias Major (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as plato)
avg rating 3.73 — 966 ratings — published -390
Alcibiades (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as plato)
avg rating 3.82 — 868 ratings — published -300
Protagoras and Meno (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as plato)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,151 ratings — published -390
The Allegory of the Cave
by (shelved 11 times as plato)
avg rating 4.25 — 5,529 ratings — published -380
The Cambridge Companion to Plato (Cambridge Companions to Philosophy)
by (shelved 10 times as plato)
avg rating 3.98 — 118 ratings — published 1992
Great Dialogues of Plato (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as plato)
avg rating 4.18 — 2,606 ratings — published
Plato (The Routledge Philosophers)
by (shelved 8 times as plato)
avg rating 3.46 — 24 ratings — published 2013
From Plato to Platonism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as plato)
avg rating 4.32 — 31 ratings — published 2013
Alcibiades I (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as plato)
avg rating 3.89 — 631 ratings — published -390
The Dialogues of Plato (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as plato)
avg rating 4.14 — 2,626 ratings — published -380
The Collected Dialogues (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as plato)
avg rating 4.44 — 793 ratings — published -380
The People of Plato: A Prosopography of Plato and Other Socratics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as plato)
avg rating 4.57 — 14 ratings — published 2002
Plato: A Guide for the Perplexed (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as plato)
avg rating 3.70 — 23 ratings — published 2007
The Open Society and Its Enemies - Volume One: The Spell of Plato (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as plato)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,892 ratings — published 1945
Plato of Athens: A Life in Philosophy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as plato)
avg rating 4.03 — 284 ratings — published 2023
The Roots of Political Philosophy: Ten Forgotten Socratic Dialogues (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as plato)
avg rating 4.65 — 46 ratings — published 1987
Plato in 90 Minutes (Philosophers in 90 Minutes #19)
by (shelved 6 times as plato)
avg rating 3.40 — 1,636 ratings — published 1995
Four Texts on Socrates: Euthyphro/Apology/Crito/Aristophanes' Clouds (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as plato)
avg rating 4.01 — 1,241 ratings — published 1984
Plato and Aristotle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as plato)
avg rating 4.51 — 51 ratings — published
“Only a philosopher's mind grows wings, since its memory always keeps it as close as possible to those realities by being close to which the gods are divine.”
― Phaedrus
― Phaedrus
“The so-called paradox of freedom is the argument that freedom in the sense of absence of any constraining control must lead to very great restraint, since it makes the bully free to enslave the meek. The idea is, in a slightly different form, and with very different tendency, clearly expressed in Plato.
Less well known is the paradox of tolerance: Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them. — In this formulation, I do not imply, for instance, that we should always suppress the utterance of intolerant philosophies; as long as we can counter them by rational argument and keep them in check by public opinion, suppression would certainly be unwise. But we should claim the right to suppress them if necessary even by force; for it may easily turn out that they are not prepared to meet us on the level of rational argument, but begin by denouncing all argument; they may forbid their followers to listen to rational argument, because it is deceptive, and teach them to answer arguments by the use of their fists or pistols. We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant. We should claim that any movement preaching intolerance places itself outside the law, and we should consider incitement to intolerance and persecution as criminal, in the same way as we should consider incitement to murder, or to kidnapping, or to the revival of the slave trade, as criminal.”
― The Open Society and Its Enemies
Less well known is the paradox of tolerance: Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them. — In this formulation, I do not imply, for instance, that we should always suppress the utterance of intolerant philosophies; as long as we can counter them by rational argument and keep them in check by public opinion, suppression would certainly be unwise. But we should claim the right to suppress them if necessary even by force; for it may easily turn out that they are not prepared to meet us on the level of rational argument, but begin by denouncing all argument; they may forbid their followers to listen to rational argument, because it is deceptive, and teach them to answer arguments by the use of their fists or pistols. We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant. We should claim that any movement preaching intolerance places itself outside the law, and we should consider incitement to intolerance and persecution as criminal, in the same way as we should consider incitement to murder, or to kidnapping, or to the revival of the slave trade, as criminal.”
― The Open Society and Its Enemies
