Plato, Metaphysics, and the Forms
Plato, Metaphysics and the Forms. Francis A. Grabowski III. New York/London: Continuum, 2008. Grabowski approaches the Platonic theory of the Forms as an epistemological problem where…
Why We Still Need Plato
Along with a growing number of my fellow evangelicals, I have learned to qualify the Reformation cry of sola scriptura by asserting the foundational authority of the…
The Poetic Rhythms Correlated with the Five Constitutions in Plato’s Republic
I In the Republic, Socrates holds that there are correlations among the poetic rhythms and the constitutions of state and soul. He does not explicitly tell us…
Why Plato Wrote
Why Plato Wrote. Danielle S. Allen. Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. As part of the Blackwell Bristol Lectures Series on Greece, Rome, and the Classical Tradition, Danielle S. Allen has…
The Musical Structure of Plato’s Dialogues
The Musical Structure of Plato’s Dialogues. J.B. Kennedy. Acumen Press, 2011. J.B. Kennedy’s The Musical Structure of Plato’s Dialogues seeks to establish that Plato divided some, if…
Savagery, Irony, and Satire in Plato’s Republic
Plato’s Republic stands in contradistinction to Aristotle’s Politics, indeed, it stands in contradistinction to almost all other works of political philosophy because Plato never speaks in the…
The Real Name of the Stranger: The Meaning of Plato’s Statesman
As a political scientist, I am interested in understanding Plato’s Statesman and in learning whether it teaches us anything noble and useful about politics. To this end,…
Soul Music in Plato’s Republic
I In the Republic, Socrates names the musical modes and he correlates them with the different constitutions of state and soul (399a–c).[1] Since Socrates ranks the different…
R. E. Allen’s Republic
Plato: The Republic. Translated by R.E. Allen. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. As with his other works on Plato’s dialogues, R. E. Allen’s translation of…
Andrea Tschemplik’s Republic
The Republic. The Comprehensive Student Edition. Andrea Tschemplik. Rowman & Littlefield, 2005. Tschempilk's The Republic is an excellent textbook for undergraduate students. It is based on the…
The Millenarian Platonism of Alain Badiou (Part III)
Plato’s Republic. Alain Badiou with Susan Spitzer, trans. Polity Press, Cambridge, 2015. In the first two parts of this essay I outlined the millenarian Platonism of French…
The Millenarian Platonism of Alain Badiou (Part II)
Plato’s Republic. Alain Badiou with Susan Spitzer, trans. Polity Press, Cambridge, 2015. Part 2: Voegelin and Girard on Badiou. This is the second instalment in a three-part…
The Millenarian Platonism of Alain Badiou (Part I)
Plato’s Republic. Alain Badiou with Susan Spitzer, trans. Polity Press, Cambridge, 2015. Plenty of books have been written about Plato’s Republic. However, as far as I can…
Democracy is Anarchy in The Republic
Our systems are at the breaking point now. We need more roads, more hospitals, more schools, more nurses, more teachers, more police, more fire, more water, more…
Plato’s Meno
Plato’s Meno. Dominic Scott. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. As part of the Cambridge Studies in the Dialogues of Plato, Scott’s Plato’s Meno is an excellent…