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 ...
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 ...
The Greek philosopher Plato thought similarly that it was right for the 'better' to rule over the 'inferior'. ...nature herself intimates that it is just for the better to have more than the worse ...