Let’s sit down and have a chat. Across time, these ‘chats’ have always been central to understanding. Plato’s Dialogues, with Socrates as the primary protagonist, laid the groundwork for philosophical ...

The dialogues of Plato's The Republic are regarded as the first great texts on political and moral theory. Philosopher Simon Blackburn has written... Plato's 'Republic' Still Influential, Author Says ...

Plato was chosen for many reasons, — his influence upon all subsequent thought, his distance from modern controversies, his grace of expression, his clearness, and his depth ; the English text was ...

DR. RUTEU BORCHARDT has performed a valuable service in rescuing from oblivion—as she pure it—these translations by John Stuart Mill of four Platonic dialogues, namely, the “Protagoras”, the ...

Might gays make better soldiers? David Cohen, a classicist from the University of California at Berkeley, has reminded us that Plato thought so-or at least Phaedrus, a leading voice in the “Symposium” ...

GREAT DIALOGUES OF PLATO (525 pp.) —Translated by W.H.D. Rouse—New American Library (50¢). William Henry Denham Rouse was a Calcutta-born Englishman who became the most learned teacher of Greek and ...