Atlantis: How Plato’s Story Corresponds to Real History. (The lost island of Atlantis depicted in the painting of Léon Bakst) Public Domain Has the Atlantis mystery finally been solved? After years of ...
The Genesis of the Forms Plato’s authorship spanned some fifty years, from the death of Socrates in 399 BCE to his own death in c. 348. He is traditionally ascribed with 35 dialogues ...
"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing." "I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing." "Wonder is the beginning of wisdom." "Education is the kindling of a flame, ...
the “Protagoras”, the “Phraedrus”, “The Georgias”, and the “Apology of Socrates”. They appeared originally in the Monthly Repository of 1834–35, and have been almost neglected ...
Plato has Socrates describe a group of people who have lived chained to the wall of a cave all of their lives, facing a blank wall. The people watch shadows projected on the wall from objects passing ...