How long does it take to read The Dialogues of Plato / The Seventh Letter?
The Dialogues of Plato / The Seventh Letter by Plato takes about 14 hours 55 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 14 hours 55 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1952. 814 pages, about 223,850 words.
30 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 24 hours 52 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 14 hours 55 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 9 hours 20 minutes |
The page count is the median across 7 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Writing in the fourth century B.C., in an Athens that had suffered a humiliating defeat in the Peloponnesian War, Plato formulated questions that have haunted the moral, religious, and political imagination of the West for more than 2,000 years: what is virtue? How should we love? What constitutes a good society? Is there a soul that outlasts the body and a truth that transcends appearance? What do we know and how do we know it? Plato's inquiries were all the more resonant because he couched them in the form of dramatic and often highly comic dialogues, whose principal personage was the ironic, teasing, and relentlessly searching philosopher Socrates.In this splendid collection, Scott Buchanan brings together the most important of Plato's dialogues, including Protagoras, The Symposium, with its barbed conjectures about the relation between love and madness, Phaedo and The Republic, his monumental work of political philosophy. Buchanan's learned and engaging introduction...
Subjects: Aesthetics, Ancient Philosophy, Ancient Rhetoric, Bibliography, Biography, Ethics
