Politics, Philosophy, Writing: Plato’s Art of Caring for Souls
Politics, Philosophy, Writing: Plato's Art of Caring for Souls. Zdravko Planinc, ed. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press. Too often Plato's dialogues are presented according to…
Politics, Philosophy, Writing: Plato's Art of Caring for Souls. Zdravko Planinc, ed. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press. Too often Plato's dialogues are presented according to…
This exchange has been assembled from an email correspondence between Zdravko Planinc and James M. Rhodes that occurred in August and October 2007, and which both men…
Disentangling Plato from the Eleatic Stranger The two articles I am discussing today–James Rhodes’ “The Real Name of the Stranger: The Meaning of Plato’s Statesman” and Zdravko…
The Origins of Platonism The dramatic appearance of the Eleatic Stranger in the Theaetetus / Sophist / Statesman trilogy is generally taken as the moment a robust…
A number of scholars whom I admire and who have been good friends to me have suggested that I would be a satisfactory respondent to another good…
Exegesis vs. Interpretation While it may be that God is the measure of human beings, Plato is certainly the measure of anything written about God, human beings,…