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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