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 ...

Kennedy’s new book, The Musical Structure of Plato’s Dialogues, reports on the hidden doctrines revealed so far, including those in The Symposium, a philosophical text concerned with love. “Plato’s ...

This being a Platonic dialogue, Socrates and Callicles agree that democracy is susceptible to rhetorical exploitation. Callicles, a proto-Nietzsche, thinks that those who fail to exploit their ...

Vlastos’ argument that distinguishes Socrates(E) of the early aporetic dialogues from Socrates(M) of the middle dialogues (which he takes to be representative of Plato’s own views in that period) ...