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On Justice — Plato

Traditional attribution

On Justice

Περὶ δικαίου

Busto de Platón (Museos Capitolinos, MC 1377)
byPlato

Socrates asks an anonymous interlocutor what the just is and how it differs from the unjust, and reaches the Socratic thesis that no one is unjust willingly, since injustice arises from ignorance.

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Authorship note

Spurious (Appendix Platonica): a brief anonymous dialogue of the Hellenistic period imitating the Socratic manner.

Editions and translations

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English

  • Plato: Complete Works — Plato

    Plato: Complete Works

    Hackett, 1997

    Translation: varios (ed. John M. Cooper y D. S. Hutchinson)

    ISBN 0872203492

    Volumen único con todo el corpus, incluidos dudosos, espurios y epigramas

  • On Justice

    Henry G. Bohn (Londres), 1854

    Translation: George Burges

    The Works of Plato, Bohn's Classical Library, vol. 6; traducción de dominio público

Español

  • De lo justo

    Medina y Navarro (Madrid), 1872

    Translation: Patricio de Azcárate

    Obras completas de Platón, tomo 11; traducción de dominio público

  • Diálogos VII: Dudosos, apócrifos, cartas

    Gredos, 1992

    ISBN 9788424914783

    Biblioteca Clásica Gredos 162; trad. de Juan Zaragoza (dudosos y cartas) y Pilar Gómez Cardó (apócrifos)

Other works by Plato

Sources

  • Cooper, John M. (ed.) y Hutchinson, D. S. (ed. asociado), Plato: Complete Works, Indianápolis, Hackett, 1997 (introducción del editor sobre el corpus, las tetralogías de Trasilo y la autenticidad de cada obra).

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