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The works of Plato

by Plato (428–348 BCE)

18 chapters, about 146,000 words. The text is in the public domain in the United States and comes from Project Gutenberg.

Chapters

1. PREFACE. 300 words
2. ON THE PLATONIC PHILOSOPHY GENERALLY. 4,900 words
3. PART II. 3,400 words
4. ARGUMENT. 11,200 words
5. ARGUMENT. 10,200 words
6. ARGUMENT. 10,100 words
7. ARGUMENT. 12,000 words
8. ARGUMENT. 12,300 words
9. ARGUMENT. 10,400 words
10. ARGUMENT. 10,000 words
11. ARGUMENT. 8,700 words
12. ARGUMENT. 8,600 words
13. ARGUMENT. 10,800 words
14. INTRODUCTION TO THE TIMÆUS. 2,100 words
15. SOCRATES, TIMÆUS, CRITIAS, HERMOCRATES. 25,200 words
16. TIMÆUS, CRITIAS, SOCRATES, HERMOCRATES. 5,100 words
17. APPENDIX. 500 words
18. THE END. 400 words

Ideas discussed in this book

• Earth (classical element)
• Earth (wuxing)
• Fire
• Fire (classical element)
• Fire (wuxing)
• Justice
• Oligarchy
• Psychiatry
• Tyrant

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