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 ...

Plato, then, took Socrates’ critical attitude and generalized it beyond morality and politics to the search for truth in all its forms. Plato may lack the scientific trappings of Aristotle, such ...

With Plato as our instrument, the class will discuss what he and Socrates were asking, how their questions change ground over time, and what sorts of answers they arrived at—and how this all leads to ...

To do so, Plato delegitimized the more pragmatic vision of philosophy, and claim to that word, of the great rhetorician and philosopher Isocrates (436-338 BC), Socrates’ younger contemporary ...