"Translating from scratch the complete dialogues of Plato, probably the most influential philosopher of them all, is a truly monumental task. Yet a brand new translation has just been unveiled. The Dialogues of Plato, all 1,320 pages of them, are published in print by Gandon Editions and are also freely available online, courtesy of the Foundation for Platonic Studies, at platonicfoundation.org/translation."
"The knowledge at which geometry aims is knowledge of the eternal, and not of aught perishing and transient."
"Geometrical knowledge is knowledge of what always is."
David Horan has produced a new complete translation of Plato's dialogues, totaling 1,320 pages, published in print by Gandon Editions and available free online at platonicfoundation.org/translation. The project has been estimated to cost about one million euros and received no corporate backing. Horan of the Irish Centre for Platonic Studies worked on the translation since 2010. The dialogues, written about 2,350 years ago, capture Plato's reexamination of earlier debates and preserve Socrates' method of debating and exploring ideas. Horan's translation favors concise modern phrasing, as shown in his rendering of a passage on geometrical knowledge.
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