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Bound in high-quality cloth with fine paper, it’s designed for both serious students and philosophy enthusiasts seeking a definitive, elegant resource. ## Description Outstanding translations by leading contemporary scholars--many commissioned especially for this volume--are presented here in the first single edition to include the entire surviving corpus of works attributed to Plato in antiquity. In his introductory essay, John Cooper explains the presentation of these works, discusses questions concerning the chronology of their composition, comments on the dialogue form in which Plato wrote, and offers guidance on approaching the reading and study of Plato's works. Also included are concise introductions by Cooper and Hutchinson to each translation, meticulous annotation designed to serve both scholar and general reader, and a comprehensive index. This handsome volume offers fine paper and a high-quality Smyth-sewn cloth binding in a sturdy, elegant edition. Review: Review of Plato: Complete Works - I got this edition of Plato's Works back in March, as I wanted, not only a TRULY COMPLETE edition of Plato, but modern translations as well. I have an MA in History, but one of my BA's is in Philosophy, with an emphasis in Early Western and Scholastic Philosophy. Over the years since, I have read many philosophers, from Plato, to Marx, to Mao, and many more. But ultimately, it ALL goes back to Plato. As Alfred North Whitehead said, all philosophy AFTER Plato was and is footnotes to him. And one cannot argue that Plato was to Western Civilisation every bit as important as Moses, and the other Biblical writers, and possibly moreso. This particular book is well-bound, with a dust jacket. I got it from a private seller at desertcart, and if memory serves it was listed as VERY GOOD condition, which it is in fact. There is some minor underlining at the beginning of the text, but that is all. Buying this book hard-copy for US$35 is a steal. Back to the content. These are all modern translations. I am used to the Jowett translations, which are all VERY dry. These are much easier to read. My knowledge of Greek is extremely limited, and even then mostly New Testament Greek, which is an entirely different dialect, for lack of a better word, than what Plato used. My personal recommendation is that, if you are reading merely for basic knowledge, use this text. If you are a true scholar of Plato (as I fancy myself to be), STILL use this text, as well as other translations, including Jowett, for comparison. Better yet, learn the original Greek! For those of us who cannot learn Greek at this time, this book is a jewel. It contains EVERYTHING, either written by Plato, or thought to be, or that even came to us under his name, spuriously so. It is THE MOST COMPLETE edition out there. Plato is the real deal. Reading him will set you to truly understand the human condition. There is no one, not Aristotle, not Moses, and I would dare to say, not even Jesus (and I say that as a Christian!), who can impart the kind of knowledge that Plato can. One who does not read him cannot be said to be any kind of scholar. In fact, if I may be so bold, I would say that reading Plato is necessary to even be truly human. In sum, I encourage EVERY PERSON who is literate to read this book. In fact, it SHOULD be required reading in EVERY high school across the land. The only reason it isn't is because, as a previous reviewer noted, the government (which controls the curriculum in our schools) would be terrified of people actually learning to THINK for themselves. Review: The Best Single Edition of One of the Most Important Collections of Works - “Plato: Complete Works” stands as the single best edition of complete works of Plato currently extant. There are alternatives, but I caution buyers against those, because they are, so far as I am aware, all compilations of the public domain translations. For the casual reader who would like to have a cursory knowledge of the dialogues, and who also doesn’t mind a little roughness to the translation, those compilations are fine, and by no means bad for that purposed. One such example, which used to be my primary source, was The Great Books of the Western World’s edition of Plato, volume VI of the set, if I remember correctly. The difference between these two mentioned editions ranges from minor to substantial. For instances, “Plato: Complete Works” contains Jowett translations that are altered, because, when Jowett was translating from the Greek, he sought to eliminate homosexual allusions and imagery from the text, so that it was more palatable to Victorian English culture. I have found the translations in the reviewed title to be smoother and the format better (e.g., the GBWW contain two columns on each page, which usually lends to faster reading, but not when it comes to dialogues, for some reason). For a large book, the volume is actually pretty easy to wield, no more difficult than, say, it would be to handle a bible. The quality of the binding is considerable, though I do know that there seems to have been some printings with quite a few defective copies, where the pages are not sewn in very well. Beware of this, when purchasing. Otherwise, I have had no problem and use my volume quite often. As a plug for the content of the book, over and beyond this particular edition, I can’t say how important it is for the intellectual mind, the well-informed individual, the human being, i.e., layperson searching for meaning, and the scholar to read Plato and Aristotle. So much of the whole of history is a continual recapitulation of these thinkers’ ideas, and so it is extraordinarily difficult to truly appreciate subsequent original thought, when one hasn’t the least idea about what it is, exactly that a thinker has said that is new. The tone was set by Plato in many areas of thought: aesthetics, epistemology, science, ontology, cultural and literary critique, etc. With so many histories having historiographically embraced Plato and Aristotle as the originators of ideas the humanity would wrestle with to present (e.g., “The Passion of the Western Mind” by Tarnas, “The Cave and the Light” by Herman, etc.), Plato’s works comprise much of what is at the core of the human intellectual tradition, and I highly recommend everyone having at least sampled them, from middle school to high school, from undergrad to grad, from layperson to scholar. Alfred North Whitehead once remarked that history [and, really, intelligent thought, in general] is a series of footnotes to Plato. He’s not too far off with the comment, and it certainly can’t be regarded as an exaggeration, by any means. Edition and content recommended to absolutely everyone willing to read it. I suggest putting everything aside, and take the time to read, skim, and peruse this anthology. ## Features - Plato, Complete Works ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #17,232 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #3 in History of Philosophy #39 in Ancient Greek & Roman Philosophy #1,455 in Reference (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 4.7 out of 5 stars 1,345 Reviews | ## Images ![Plato: Complete Works - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81zwMDVfCXL.jpg) ## Available Options This product comes in different **Media Language, Media Format** options. ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Review of Plato: Complete Works *by D***O on June 5, 2017* I got this edition of Plato's Works back in March, as I wanted, not only a TRULY COMPLETE edition of Plato, but modern translations as well. I have an MA in History, but one of my BA's is in Philosophy, with an emphasis in Early Western and Scholastic Philosophy. Over the years since, I have read many philosophers, from Plato, to Marx, to Mao, and many more. But ultimately, it ALL goes back to Plato. As Alfred North Whitehead said, all philosophy AFTER Plato was and is footnotes to him. And one cannot argue that Plato was to Western Civilisation every bit as important as Moses, and the other Biblical writers, and possibly moreso. This particular book is well-bound, with a dust jacket. I got it from a private seller at Amazon, and if memory serves it was listed as VERY GOOD condition, which it is in fact. There is some minor underlining at the beginning of the text, but that is all. Buying this book hard-copy for US$35 is a steal. Back to the content. These are all modern translations. I am used to the Jowett translations, which are all VERY dry. These are much easier to read. My knowledge of Greek is extremely limited, and even then mostly New Testament Greek, which is an entirely different dialect, for lack of a better word, than what Plato used. My personal recommendation is that, if you are reading merely for basic knowledge, use this text. If you are a true scholar of Plato (as I fancy myself to be), STILL use this text, as well as other translations, including Jowett, for comparison. Better yet, learn the original Greek! For those of us who cannot learn Greek at this time, this book is a jewel. It contains EVERYTHING, either written by Plato, or thought to be, or that even came to us under his name, spuriously so. It is THE MOST COMPLETE edition out there. Plato is the real deal. Reading him will set you to truly understand the human condition. There is no one, not Aristotle, not Moses, and I would dare to say, not even Jesus (and I say that as a Christian!), who can impart the kind of knowledge that Plato can. One who does not read him cannot be said to be any kind of scholar. In fact, if I may be so bold, I would say that reading Plato is necessary to even be truly human. In sum, I encourage EVERY PERSON who is literate to read this book. In fact, it SHOULD be required reading in EVERY high school across the land. The only reason it isn't is because, as a previous reviewer noted, the government (which controls the curriculum in our schools) would be terrified of people actually learning to THINK for themselves. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The Best Single Edition of One of the Most Important Collections of Works *by D***N on May 11, 2014* “Plato: Complete Works” stands as the single best edition of complete works of Plato currently extant. There are alternatives, but I caution buyers against those, because they are, so far as I am aware, all compilations of the public domain translations. For the casual reader who would like to have a cursory knowledge of the dialogues, and who also doesn’t mind a little roughness to the translation, those compilations are fine, and by no means bad for that purposed. One such example, which used to be my primary source, was The Great Books of the Western World’s edition of Plato, volume VI of the set, if I remember correctly. The difference between these two mentioned editions ranges from minor to substantial. For instances, “Plato: Complete Works” contains Jowett translations that are altered, because, when Jowett was translating from the Greek, he sought to eliminate homosexual allusions and imagery from the text, so that it was more palatable to Victorian English culture. I have found the translations in the reviewed title to be smoother and the format better (e.g., the GBWW contain two columns on each page, which usually lends to faster reading, but not when it comes to dialogues, for some reason). For a large book, the volume is actually pretty easy to wield, no more difficult than, say, it would be to handle a bible. The quality of the binding is considerable, though I do know that there seems to have been some printings with quite a few defective copies, where the pages are not sewn in very well. Beware of this, when purchasing. Otherwise, I have had no problem and use my volume quite often. As a plug for the content of the book, over and beyond this particular edition, I can’t say how important it is for the intellectual mind, the well-informed individual, the human being, i.e., layperson searching for meaning, and the scholar to read Plato and Aristotle. So much of the whole of history is a continual recapitulation of these thinkers’ ideas, and so it is extraordinarily difficult to truly appreciate subsequent original thought, when one hasn’t the least idea about what it is, exactly that a thinker has said that is new. The tone was set by Plato in many areas of thought: aesthetics, epistemology, science, ontology, cultural and literary critique, etc. With so many histories having historiographically embraced Plato and Aristotle as the originators of ideas the humanity would wrestle with to present (e.g., “The Passion of the Western Mind” by Tarnas, “The Cave and the Light” by Herman, etc.), Plato’s works comprise much of what is at the core of the human intellectual tradition, and I highly recommend everyone having at least sampled them, from middle school to high school, from undergrad to grad, from layperson to scholar. Alfred North Whitehead once remarked that history [and, really, intelligent thought, in general] is a series of footnotes to Plato. He’s not too far off with the comment, and it certainly can’t be regarded as an exaggeration, by any means. Edition and content recommended to absolutely everyone willing to read it. I suggest putting everything aside, and take the time to read, skim, and peruse this anthology. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great Translation, Great Context and Explanation, Great Quality! *by S***A on June 19, 2025* Very well collected and organized! I quite liked the introduction and overview in the beginning of the book; it provides a wonderful context to Plato’s works and Socratic dialogues as a whole—making the text approachable for any audience. There is also a plethora of authors notes on words and sections that require contextual explanations to understand. I like how the author went this direction as apposed to modifying the translated text in such a way that I feel further misinterprets what is meant in its original form. Of course unless you can read ancient text in its original language, you’re always going to lose a little meaning in the process, but from the other books I’ve read this seems to be the most organic and understandable form. Finally the book protector is pretty and the book cover fits very nice in my collection! ## Frequently Bought Together - Plato: Complete Works - Complete Works of Aristotle, Vol. 1 - The Complete Works of Aristotle: The Revised Oxford Translation, Vol. 2 (Bollingen Series LXXI-2) --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.tn/products/8211322-plato-complete-works](https://www.desertcart.tn/products/8211322-plato-complete-works) --- *Product available on Desertcart Tunisia* *Store origin: TN* *Last updated: 2026-10-17*