The article explores Plato's preference for dialogue over written treatises, drawing upon an Egyptian tale where King Thamus ...

Four Dialogues of Plato, including the ‘Apology of Socrates’ Translations and Notes by John Stuart Mill. Edited, with an Introductory Essay, by Ruth Borchardt. Pp. vi + 194.

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 ...

In 2024, researchers revealed they had found new details of the Ancient Greek philosopher Plato’s burial site. It was a ...

Plato envisioned dialogue as the path to enlightenment—where two minds, in conversation, could reach higher levels of understanding. But the dialogues generated by LLMs offer something ...

Plato mourned the invention of the alphabet, worried that the use of text would threaten traditional memory-based arts of rhetoric. In his “Dialogues,” arguing through the voice of Thamus, the ...

But she errs, as do the classicists she cites, by failing to distinguish between Plato’s teaching in his dialogues, including “The Republic,” and the views expressed by the usual protagonist ...