In Plato's Phaedrus, Socrates is concerned with how things are grouped together and how
they are divided. He makes an analogy with carving up an animal. Just as cuts of meat …

From the outset Platonic science is explicitly, polemically, and unabashedly teleological.
This prominent fact about Plato's orientation so far lacks an adequate historical explanation …

Socrates wrote nothing; Plato's accounts of Socrates helped to establish western politics,
ethics, and metaphysics. Both have played crucial and dramatically changing roles in …

Plato's dialogues show Socrates at different ages, beginning when he was about nineteen
and already deeply immersed in philosophy and ending with his execution five decades …

Plato's late dialogues have often been neglected because they lack the literary charm of his
earlier masterpieces. Charles Kahn proposes a unified view of these diverse and difficult …

Faced with the difficult task of discerning Plato's true ideas from the contradictory voices he
used to express them, scholars have never fully made sense of the many incompatibilities …

This book is the first sustained modern investigation of Plato's theology. A central thesis of
the book is that Plato _had _a theology—not just a mythology for the ideal city, not just the …

Widely differing opinions have been expressed on Plato's place in the history of Greek
science, as on many other features of his work. The view that Plato's attitude and influence …

There is a passage in this dialogue which has led many scholars—the great majority of
those who have translated or discussed it in detail—to think that Plato's Forms are meant to …

David Bostock examines the theories and arguments put forward by Plato in his Phaedo, in
which he attempts to show that the soul is immortal. This excellent introduction to Plato's …