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On Virtue — Plato

Traditional attribution

On Virtue

Περὶ ἀρετῆς

Busto de Platón (Museos Capitolinos, MC 1377)
byPlato

Socrates and a companion discuss whether virtue is taught or comes by nature. Closely following the end of the Meno, they conclude that good men are so by a divine gift.

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Authorship note

Spurious (Appendix Platonica): an anonymous pastiche reworking passages of the Meno.

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 Virtue

    Henry G. Bohn (Londres), 1854

    Translation: George Burges

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

Español

  • De la virtud

    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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