The Guardian: Plato's Dialogues, part 3: Philosophy as a way of life
Plato wrote dialogues. This is striking not only because it differs so wildly from the usual philosophical style today; often dry, usually abstract, always tightly argued prose. It matters because we ...
The Guardian: Plato's Dialogues, part 5: Love and the perception of forms
That there might be a link between love and knowledge is not an idea that many philosophers think about today. But for Plato, the link is deep. In several dialogues, he implies that if you stir up the ...
Let’s sit down and have a chat. Across time, these ‘chats’ have always been central to understanding. Plato’s Dialogues, with Socrates as the primary protagonist, laid the groundwork for philosophical ...
DR. RUTEU BORCHARDT has performed a valuable service in rescuing from oblivion—as she pure it—these translations by John Stuart Mill of four Platonic dialogues, namely, the “Protagoras”, the ...
The Irish Times: This man spent 15 years translating Plato’s dialogues. What he learned is vital for us all
This man spent 15 years translating Plato’s dialogues. What he learned is vital for us all
Plato (5th–4th century BC), one of the most important philosophers of Greek antiquity, left a valuable spiritual heritage, compiled in his famous dialogues. His teachings extend to almost every single ...
A collection of Vlastos’s papers on Plato, including some important earlier work on the early dialogues. Vlastos, Gregory, Plato I: Metaphysics and Epistemology and Plato II: Ethics, Politics, and Philosophy of Art and Religion (South Bend: University of Notre Dame Press, 1987).
Plato (l. 424/423 to 348/347 BCE) is the pre-eminent Greek philosopher, known for his Dialogues and for founding his Academy in Athens, traditionally considered...