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Theaetetus - Plato Preface
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Theaetetus
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About the Author

Plato (c.427-347 BC) was one of the shapers of the whole intellectual tradition of the West. He was disgusted by the corruption of Athenian political life, and the execution of his teacher Socrates. He sought cures for the ills of society in philosophy, and became convinced that those ills would not cease until philosophers became rulers, or rulers philosophers. Robin Waterfield has translated various Greek philosophical texts, and was once a commissioning editor for Penguin.