William H.F. Altman, The Bogotá Lectures; §4. “The Return to Platonism”
The invitation extended to me by Professor Alfonso Flórez and the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana marks the highpoint of my career. For a secondary school teacher who has…
William H.F. Altman, The Bogotá Lectures; §3. “Plato and ‘Plato’”
There is no doubt that Nietzsche’s relationship to Plato is a complicated one. In my book on Nietzsche, I tried to show that this complexity derives from…
William H.F. Altman, The Bogotá Lectures; §2. “Plato and ‘The Presocratics’”
Last year in Buenos Aires, Livio Rosetti opened the inaugural meeting of the International Society of Socratic Studies with a paper called “Né filosofo né sofista.” Perhaps…
William H.F. Altman, The Bogotá Lectures; §1. “Plato and Aristotle”
Walking toward us from the center of Raphael’s School of Athens are the two giants of Ancient Philosophy: Plato and Aristotle. By depicting Plato as an old…