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The Socratic Dialogues Early Period, Volume 2

Gorgias, Protagoras, Meno, Euthydemus, Lesser Hippias, Greater Hippias

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The Socratic Dialogues Early Period, Volume 2

By: Plato, Benjamin Jowett - translator
Narrated by: David Rintoul, full cast
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Here, in this second collection of Socratic Dialogues from Plato's Early Period, read by David Rintoul as Socrates with a full cast, are contrasting six works. Often, as with Gorgias, which opens the recording, Socrates combats the popular subjects of sophistry and rhetoric, in direct conversation with Gorgias (a leading sophist teacher), and with one of his pupils, Callicles.

In Meno, Socrates encounters another Gorgias pupil, Meno, and a debate on 'virtue' ensues. Virtue is also the topic in Protagoras, though this dialogue is largely narrated by Socrates (David Rintoul), who 'reports' the conversation which had taken place shortly before.

Euthydemus is one of the most entertaining of all the Socratic Dialogues, with the two vastly overconfident brothers Euthydemus and Dionysodorus, supposedly capable wrestlers, boxers and musicians, who have come to Athens to teach sophistry. They enter into philosophical debate with Socrates, who at times is almost amazed by their brash sense of superiority.

The Lesser Hippias dialogue considers issues of morality, truth and lies, with reference to Homer's great characters Achilles and Odysseus, while the Greater Hippias enquires into the nature of beauty.

Translation: Benjamin Jowett.

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Overall a good listen as this was the early period of Socratic dialogues I did not feel the overwhelming sense of wisdom that you would find in the symposium or other later works but a good listen and a good lesson none the less

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This is an excellent audio book. I highly recommend it. It is read by an actor and cast.

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It was an excellent performance. Well spoken and faithful to the spirit of Plato's Socratic dialogues.

an excellent performance

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An enthusiastic performance gives what value there is.

It is a shot walk to verify the failure of the translation.

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Excellent work...What more can one say of such a performance...Will definitely listen many times with great pleasure.

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