For most scholars, the texts of Plato’s dialogues constitute the unique and supreme source of his philosophy. Affected by a specific prejudice, which could be called “textual…
It is often said that “history is written by the victors.” Actual historians and students of history know that this is simply untrue. Among the most famous…
Plato, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Leo Strauss need no introduction to students of philosophy, especially students of political philosophy. Although these three figures are well-known and well-read, have…
Today, “more scholars argue…that Plato’s philosophy is interwoven with myth.” Even though popular misperception casts Plato as an enemy of the poets, the reason for Plato’s criticism…
Zenon Culverhouse. Plato’s Hippias Minor: The Play of Ambiguity. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2021. Plato’s Hippias Minor is often characterized as one of Plato’s least satisfying dialogues,…
Robin J. Varma. Ruling Bodies: A Study of Coercion and Punishment in Plato's Republic, Laws, and Gorgias. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2022. Where does Plato fall…
Here shall he hunt [this beast] through every city until he will have sent her back into the underworld there whence envy first dispatched her.[1] The problem…
As with The Republic, in The Gorgias Plato is trying to defend the idea that it is worth it to try to be a good person even…
Is there a place for “the question of death” in the education of human beings and citizens? What might that place be? How might the question be…
“What I love very much is your being yourself style, and I wish that you keep this skill and manage to share it with all around, and…
What does it mean to live a meaningful life? In what sense is life ever meaningful? Is meaning inherent in life, or is meaning something “we” give…
Modern secularism has long promised to provide us with a sustainable and profitable context for political-theological conflicts (conflicts concerning “what is right” and its ground, its “why”). …
“Beauty is a manifestation of Nature’s secret laws, which would otherwise remain forever hidden.” — J. W. von Goethe[1] Socrates notoriously advocated for the expulsion of the…
Plato wrote a dialogue on political justice. In English it’s titled The Republic. Besides Socrates, the major speakers are Plato’s two brothers. They are trying to solve…
We’ve been in California this past week. That’s where I go periodically for neuropathy treatments. This time, the improvements weren’t merely measurable but also experiential. For example,…