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Critias — Plato

Critias

Plato

  • Essays
  • Book language: English
  • 25 pages

Critias is an unfinished philosophical dialogue by Plato, a companion to Timaeus, in which Critias recounts the story of Atlantis and ancient Athens. It examines the ideal state and a mythic conflict. Worth listening as an intriguing fragment where philosophy meets legend.

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CRITIAS
by Plato
Translated by Benjamin Jowett
Contents
INTRODUCTION AND ANALYSIS.
The Critias is a fragment which breaks off in the middle
of a sentence. It was designed to be the second part of a
trilogy, which, like the other great Platonic trilogy of
the Sophist, Statesman, Philosopher, was never completed.
Timaeus had brought down the origin of the world to the
creation of man, and the dawn of history was now to
succeed the philosophy of nature. The Critias is also

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  1. CRITIAS
  2. CRITIAS.

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