Plato (427—347 B.C.E.) Plato is one of the world’s best known and most widely read and studied philosophers. He was the student of Socrates and the teacher of Aristotle , and he wrote in the middle of the fourth century B.C.E. in ancient Greece. Though influenced primarily by Soc…

…stortions, predicated more on what modern moral philosophers think than on what Plato thinks. Socrates takes the basic challenge to concern how justice relates to the just person’s objective success or happiness (Greek eudaimonia ). In Book One, he argued that justice, as a virtu…

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…6 Following 302 Public Views For the last few years I've been working mainly on Plato, first preparing a book (Knowledge and Truth in Plato, which is now out) that is focused round issues to do with knowledge and truth, but which also suggests radical revisions across a wide rang…

…apers Books Papers by Andrea Nightingale Divine Epiphany and Pious Discourse in Plato's Phaedrus Arion , 2018 This essay analyzes Plato's use of (1) poetic texts that feature divine epiphanies, and (... more This essay analyzes Plato's use of (1) poetic texts that…

…nen/Guten sowie der Seele aus dem Geist als eine Lehre präsentiert, die man bei Platon vorfindet (V 1, 8,1-10 mit Bezug auf Plat. ep. II 312e1-4), schreibt er: "Diese Gedanken (logoi) sind nicht neu und nicht erst jetzt, sondern längst (palai) ausgesprochen worden, jedoch nicht o…

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…i This volume presents a new reading of how ontology and language intertwine in Plato’s thought. The main idea is that the structure of reality determines how language works. Conversely, analysing Plato’s view on language is key to understanding his ontology. This work first focu…

…mand of the underlying data and to answer finally the challenge, articulated in Plato’s Phaedrus , that written words cannot explain themselves. We then shift to describe some of the basic services and collections that must be a part of any Cyberinfrastructure for classics and hu…

…atistician. Psychology, Philosophy and Religion. My current interests center on Platonism and its applications to humanistic, counseling, and cognitive psychology. I am also interested in Christian Platonism, both historically (e.g., St Gregory of Nyssa) and as a living spiritual…

…ith which he has been saddled. Download One over Many: The Unitary Pluralism of Plato's World (2021) One over Many: The Unitary Pluralism of Plato’s World is a tightly integrated collection of essay... more One over Many: The Unitary Pluralism of Plato’s World is a tightly integr…

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…SC-CZ grant). My work focuses on ancient Greek political thought, especially in Plato and Aristotle. I also maintain an interest in ancient philosophy in the history of music. I received my PhD in Classics from Leiden University and have taught in Classics, Philosophy, and Politi…

… A Transformation in What Writing Represents: David Boulton: Before we go on to Plato, one of the interesting things that I’m hearing, that I would like to draw out, is that there may have been a multi-ordinal written-oral language connection in the Hebrew writing system that did…

…οσοφία του Πλάτωνα This PhD dissertation entitled “The Concept of Publicness in Plato’s Philosophy,” consists of Pre... more This PhD dissertation entitled “The Concept of Publicness in Plato’s Philosophy,” consists of Preface, Introduction, two Parts, Conclusions, Bibliography, …