This dialogue is Plato's treatise on natural philosophy. Integrating Pre-Socratic thought with his own theory of ideas and metaphysics, he attempts to bring everything that exists under reason; from the Cosmos to living creatures to human diseases. He sees everything created as product of necessity, having a cause and tending towards an end; the Universe as one whole being having a soul, and everything that exists as a work of design intelligible to the human mind.
This edition of The Apology is the translation into English from the original Greek by Professor Benjamin Jowett from the third edition of The Dialogues of Plato published in five volumes by Oxford University Press in 1892. Jowett's translation of Plato is a reference in English literature and an artistic achievement in it's own right, preserving in beautiful English the spirit and the direct, clear and elevated style of Plato's writing.
