books.google.com - Plato stands as the fount of our philosophical tradition, being the first Western thinker to produce a body of writing that touches upon a wide range of topics still discussed by philosophers today. In a sense he invented philosophy as a distinct subject, for although many of these topics were discussed...http://books.google.com/books/about/The_Cambridge_Companion_to_Plato.html?id=QmmBpP41slwC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe Cambridge Companion to Plato
