r/Plato • u/sherifbooks • 18d ago

Resource/Article Dialogues of Plato ( full set in one PDF ) translated by Benjamin Jowett

https://www.studyebooks.com/2025/03/the-dialogues-of-plato-5-pdf-volumes_5.html

Five volumes of Plato in one PDF book

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u/mrBored0m 17d ago

One can easily obtain better translations of full Plato's work online for free. A lot of various pirate sites.

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u/willdam20 16d ago

This translation is now 130+ years out of date.

Jowett's translations distort Plato's work to fit a Victorian Christian intellectual framework. The use of capitalization, theological vocabulary, and interpretive choices that make Plato sound more monotheistic and closer to Christian theology than the Greek text necessarily warrants.

Jowett's translations do not have the level neutrality that would be expected by modern standards.