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from the death of Socrates in 399 BCE to his own death in c. 348. He is traditionally ascribed with 35 dialogues, although around ten of these may be spurious. Today, the dialogues are often ...

Plato was a young man when he first encountered Socrates, and he quickly became one of his most devoted disciples. He was present at many of the philosopher’s famous dialogues or heard about ...

Diotima, the female philosopher in Plato's Symposium, has puzzled historians for centuries with her theory of love and beauty ...

Vlastos’ argument that distinguishes Socrates(E) of the early aporetic dialogues from Socrates(M) of the middle dialogues (which he takes to be representative of Plato’s own views in that period) ...