Just as Plato leant upon Heraclitus’ flux for his ... and offers the ultimate justification for the life of virtue. The dialogue ends with a myth of the afterlife and, of course, the dramatic ...

Born in 427 BC, Plato fled Athens in 399 BC after Socrates was executed, blaming democracy and the Peloponnesian War for his teacher's death. An aristocrat and an elitist, much of what we know ...

While much of Plato’s work has survived in the intervening millennia since his death, it has been impossible to produce a ...

IT would have been a real treat for philosophers to have a genuine study of Plato's “Theory of Knowledge” by Prof. Cornford. As it stands, however, the title of the book is misleading as it ...

Saint Plato contested in martyrdom in 266, when Agrippinus was proconsul. He was from the city of Ancyra in the province of Galatia. Thy Martyrs, O Lord, in their courageous contest for Thee received ...

In political and everyday life he rejected Plato's ideas, which he found too excessive, and advocated 'The Golden Mean' - the middle way between extremes. Like Plato before him, who briefly taught ...

Beauty, truth and justice are at the heart of a functioning, healthy metropolis – three Platonic values our governments and ...