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Seth Benardete
An insightful commentary on Plato's Laws, his complex final work.
The Laws was Plato's last work, his longest, and one of his most difficult. In contrast to the Republic, which…
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Seth Benardete,Allan David Bloom
Plato’s Symposium - translated here, and with a commentary - is arguably one of the greatest works on the nature of love ever written. It recounts a drinking party following…
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This volume brings together Seth Benardete's studies of Hesiod, Homer, and Greek tragedy, eleven Platonic dialogues, and Aristotle's Metaphysics.
The Argument of the Action spans four decades of Seth Benardete's…
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Ronna Burger,Patrick Goodin
This volume is a tribute to the thought of Seth Benardete by contributors who had the rare good fortune of studying with him or those who discovered the treasure of…
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Interprets and pairs two important Platonic dialogs, the Gorgias and the Phaedrus, illuminating Socrates’ notion of rhetoric and Plato’s conception of morality and eros in the human soul. This book…
In this section-by-section commentary, Benardete argues that Plato’s Republic is a holistic analysis of the beautiful, the good, and the just. This book provides a fresh interpretation of the Republic…
Benardete’s 1955 doctoral dissertation in social thought for the University of Chicago was published in two parts in the St. John’s Review in the spring and summer of 1985. The…
This detailed commentary on the action and argument of Sophocles’ Antigone is meant to be a reflection on and response to Hegel’s interpretation in the Phenomenology (VI.A.a-b), and includes, in…
This detailed commentary on the action and argument of Sophocles’ Antigone is meant to be a reflection on and response to Hegel’s interpretation in the Phenomenology (VI.A.a-b). It thus moves…
Herodotus’ Inquiries should be regarded as our best and most complete document for pre-Socratic philosophy. Without being a work of philosophy, its plan and intention cannot be understood apart from…
Focuses on the idea of the good in what is widely regarded as one of Plato’s most challenging and complex dialogs, the Philebus. This title is suitable for classicists, philosophers…
Plato
English translation of Plato’s dialogue concerning the nature of knowledge. In this dialogue, Socrates and Theaetetus discuss three definitions of knowledge: knowledge as nothing but perception, as true judgment and…
Theaetus, the Sophist, and the Statesman are a trilogy of Platonic dialgues that show Socrates formulating his conception of philosophy as he prepares the defense for his trial. Originally published…
Plato’s Statesman is the second of a projected trilogy of dialogues, in which an unnamed stranger sets out to satisfy Socrates’ desire for an account of sophist, statesman, and philosopher…
The Being of the Beautiful collects P
Leo Strauss
Leo Strauss presents a coherent and complete interpretation of Plato’s Symposium , and sheds light on the meaning of the dialogue and its place in the Platonic corpus, and also…
This volume of lectures was first given as a course in 1959 under the title Plato’s Political Philosophy . These lectures, previously unpublished, have been passed down from one generation…
Seth Benardete,Michael Davis
Aristotle’s much-translated On Poetics is the earliest and arguably the best treatment that we possess of tragedy as a literary form. Seth Benardete and Michael Davis have translated it anew…
Seth Benardete,Ronna Burger,Michael Davis
The Archaeology of the Soul is a testimony to the extraordinary scope of Seth Benardete’s thought. Some essays concern particular authors or texts; others range more broadly and are thematic…
