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Plato’s Dialogue Crito: Should Socrates Have Escaped His Execution?
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 ...
Greek Reporter4d
Diotima, the Ancient Greek Female Philosopher of Love
Diotima, the female philosopher in Plato's Symposium, has puzzled historians for centuries with her theory of love and beauty ...
Cambridge University Press4y
Plato: Protagoras
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 ...
Psychology Today1mon
Plato’s Theory of Forms and Its Significance Today
The Genesis of the Forms Plato’s authorship spanned some fifty years, from the death of Socrates in 399 BCE to his own death in c. 348. He is traditionally ascribed with 35 dialogues ...