The Socratic Dialogues: Middle Period

This audiobook features three significant dialogues from Plato's Middle Period: "Symposium," "Phaedo," and "Theaetetus." In "Symposium," a diverse group of friends, including Phaedrus and Socrates, gather to discuss the various dimensions of love, culminating in an unexpected interjection from the inebriated Alcibiades. "Phaedo" poignantly recounts Socrates' final moments before his execution, as he reflects on the soul and its immortality surrounded by friends. Lastly, "Theaetetus" explores the nature of knowledge through a dialogue between Socrates and a young mathematician, examining the contrasts between an active and a contemplative life. The translation is by Benjamin Jowett and is narrated by Hugh Ross.