What can you say? In the Western World, Socrates & Plato are it. It has been commented, and we cannot remember by whom, that the worlds philosophers are footnotes to Plato. Though this statement does great injustice to both pre and post Socratic philosophy, it does emphasize Plato's importance, and, in a way, put philosophy (in its greek meaning - friend or lover of wisdom - philos - sophos) as the way of life, learning, and thinking, derived from a Socratic foundation. Many consider Aristotle completely distinct from Plato, but it seems that most of Aristotle's works are explications on the Pre-Socratics and Plato (the points where Aristotle flagrantly contradicts Plato are trivial, and even then it is usually a point made in a particular context in a particular work - thus one must first understand the referred work of Plato in all its complexity to see if Aristotle really does disagree with Plato or a point raised in a particular context.)

Right now we have the complete texts of Plato's Apology, Crito, Phaedo, Symposium, and Meno.

We will always be adding to our own book collection, but one excellent online resource for books is at Project Gutenberg.

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