Tag: Plato

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Plato: online resources

I’m a little overwhelmed at what is available online to help in reading and understanding Plato’s dialogues. Many sites or posts I found focus on one or two of the dialogues so I will link them when I get to that particular work. If you know of any general resources, let me know in the […]

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Plato—a bleg

One of my goals has been to read Plato. And understand, at least partially, what I’m reading. If nothing else, it should prove entertaining (even if only in a painful manner) for others who took philosophy courses. I thought I would go in the order of John M. Cooper’s compilation (shown above—a gift from my […]

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Diff’rent strokes

Conspiracy theories and hidden codes rarely do anything for me. So I’m a little skeptical that, even if true, Cracking the “Plato Code” will truly “transform the early history of Western thought, and especially the histories of ancient science, mathematics, music, and philosophy.” Regardless, since I’m planning on reading the dialogues in the next year, […]