IT would have been a real treat for philosophers to have a genuine study of Plato's “Theory of Knowledge ... of the “Theaetetus” and the “Sophist” with a running commentary.
Smith, Colin C. 2018. The Groundwork for Dialectic in Statesman 277a-287b. The International Journal of the Platonic Tradition, Vol. 12, Issue. 2, p. 132.
The Protagoras is one of Plato's most entertaining dialogues. It represents Socrates at a gathering of the most celebrated and highest-earning intellectuals of the day, among them the sophist ...
Plato's own pupil, Aristotle, was born in 384 BC and began as an ardent supporter of his teacher. However, gradually he modified his teacher's views and turned away from the world of ideas back to ...
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 ...