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 ...
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 ...
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 ...