Plato: Introduction to Timeless Thoughts. All Dialogues Summarized by Hoshang J. Khambatta and Alvin Wald. Published in 2016 by Normed Verlag Gm6H, Bad Homburg, Germany. Pp: x + 248. Price: US $ 26.
It is no easy labor to condense the equivalent of 1,500 close printed pages of Plato’s Dialogues into some 250 summarized ones, further shared by essential "overviews” that precede each of the 42 listed compilations (shown in italics). Some, by traditional reckoning, are marked "not authenticated”; others as "not generally accepted.” With this finely produced hardback edition — deceptively slim, but weighty in content — general readers......