…without experience’ ( ἀπείρητος apeiretos ) ( Odyssey 2.170; Homer 1999 : 43 ). Plato, instead, considers that a good judge should be guided by science ( ἐπιστήμη episteme ), not by ‘personal experience’ ( empeiria ). The good judge, says Plato, should know the nature of evil not…

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… son statut épistémologique. Estelle une forme de sophistique, comme le suggère Platon, ou une propédeutique à la philosophie, comme le laisse entendre Isocrate ? En quoi se distingue-t-elle de la dialectique, plus précisément de l'antilogique éléatique ? Ses origines sont égalem…

…onal Studies in Philosophy, Journal of the History of Philosophy, Journal of Neoplatonic Studies, History and Theory, Southern Journal of Philosophy, Philosophy and Rhetoric, Augustinianum, Augustinian Studies, and the APA Newsletter on Teaching Philosophy. He has contributed cha…

… son statut épistémologique. Estelle une forme de sophistique, comme le suggère Platon, ou une propédeutique à la philosophie, comme le laisse entendre Isocrate ? En quoi se distingue-t-elle de la dialectique, plus précisément de l'antilogique éléatique ? Ses origines sont égalem…

Papers by Errol Boon Boon, Errol (2025). Plato’s Circle of Words and Tones: On the Dialectic Between Logos and Music in the Pursuit of Truth. In: Meter and Music in Ancient Greece. Edited by In J. R. Bagby, R. Blankenborg, & J. R. Gatt. Parnassos Press. 191–214 , 2025 This essay …

…lassicism neoconservatism neo-darwinism neoism neolibertarianism neopaganism neoplatonism neoclassicism neoromanticism nepotism nestorianism nihilism nomianism non-consequentialism non-interventionism nonsituationism nudism obelism objectivism occultism ogreism oligarchism olympi…

English translator and Neoplatonist (1758–1835) Portrait of Thomas Taylor by Sir Thomas Lawrence , about 1812, from the National Gallery of Canada , Ottawa. In the background the Acropolis of Athens is silhouetted against a fiery sky, and by Taylor's left hand is a copy of his tr…

…etoric cannot be an art ( technê ); and since this is precisely the position of Plato’s Gorgias (see §4 of Plato: rhetoric and poetry ), the lost dialogue Grullos has traditionally been regarded as a sign of Aristotle’s (alleged) early Platonism (see Solmsen 1929, 196–208). But t…

…but it is not a central element in the philosophy of the classical period (i.e. Plato and Aristotle) as it is in Hellenistic philosophy, particularly with the Stoics. The analysis includes an assessment of the conditions allowing a theory that offers the figure of the wise man as…

…hies for 2026-2027 Jatinder Cheema – President Dr. Jatinder Cheema is currently PLATO's President. She has been a PLATO member since 2015 and has served as an At-Large Board member from 2020 until 2022 and as the Treasurer from 2022 until 2024. She is a retired Senior Foreign Ser…

…able information about Zeno’s life. Plutarch said Zeno visited Athens. Earlier, Plato had remarked (in Parmenides 127b) that Parmenides took Zeno to Athens with him where he encountered Socrates, who was about twenty years younger than Zeno, but today’s scholars consider this enc…

…ј филозофији или у грчкој науци. THE INFLUENCE OF THE ANCIENT GREEK MEDICINE ON PLATO’S PHILOSOPHY: THE CASE STUDY OF THE TIMAEUS S u m m a r y This paper researches the influence of ancient Greek medicine on Plato’s philosophy, in particular in relation to his Timaeus. In order …

Papers by Fulcran Teisserenc Malcolm Schofield, Plato. Political Philosophy Revue Philosophique de Louvain , 2008 M. Schofield (ici S.) nous apprend (p. 138) que J. S. Mill, pour le compte rendu de 1866 qu’il a ... more M. Schofield (ici S.) nous apprend (p. 138) que J. S. Mill, …

Plato tradicional de la famosa cocina de Zhongxiang, Hubei, una de las tres maravillas de Zhongxiang, patrimonio cultural inmaterial provincial, manjar imperial de la corte de la dinastía Ming, de color rojo y amarillo entrelazados, graso pero no empalagoso. ## Resumen El plato d…