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 ...

Montas, senior lecturer of American studies and English at Columbia University, wrote a book, titled “Rescuing Socrates: How ...

Beauty, truth and justice are at the heart of a functioning, healthy metropolis – three Platonic values our governments and developers too often choose to ignore.

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 ...

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

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 ...

Plato, however, so prolific a writer ... Volume IV therefore offers a general introduction to his life and writings, and covers the so-called 'early' and 'middle' periods of his philosophical ...