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«Lettres» is Plato's philosophical epistolary, published by Flammarion in paperback (320 pages, in French).
In these letters, Plato speaks in the first person, something exceptional in his work, and appears in action: as a young man he wanted to take part in Athenian politics and later tried to apply in Syracuse the projects set out in Republic, Statesman and Laws. The work shows him as a philosopher advising rulers, a tradition followed by Descartes, Voltaire or Diderot.
It corresponds to no. 466 of the GF collection; translation from Ancient Greek and presentation by Luc Brisson.
For readers of classical philosophy who want to discover a facet of Plato different from that presented by his dialogues.
Plato was an ancient Greek philosopher of Classical Athens who is most commonly considered the foundational thinker of the Western philosophical tradition. An innovator of the literary dialogue and dialectic forms, Plato influenced all the major areas of theoretical philosophy and practical philosophy, and was the founder of the Academy, a philosophical school in Athens where Plato taught the collection of philosophical theories that would later become known as Platonism.
