Apr 12, 2016
Cratylus (ΚΡΑΤΥΛΟΣ) discusses whether things have names by mere convention or have true names which can only be correctly applied to the object named and may have originated from God. Painting: Oedipus and the Sphinx by Gustave Moreau. Translated by Benjamin Jowett. Audiobook read by Geoffrey Edwards.
Apr 2, 2016
Axiochus (ΑΞΙΟΧΟΣ) may not have been written by Plato. Socrates presents various arguments to the gravely ill Axiochus for why he should not fear death. The first is that the dead experience nothing because they do not exist and so by definition can not suffer from death. When this argument fails Socrates...
Apr 1, 2016
The Treatise of Timaeus the Locrian on the Soul of the World and Nature (Ancient Greek: ΠΕΡΙ ΦΥΣΙΟΣ ΚΟΣΜΩ ΚΑΙ ΨΥΧΑΣ; Latin: Timaeus Locrus) may not have been written by Plato. The Pythagorean philosopher Timaeus describes the creation of the world by God and the Demiurge using the eternal forms as...
Apr 1, 2016
Definitions (Greek: ΟΡΟΙ; Latin: DEFINITIONES) may not have been written by Plato. The text provides what some consider to be occasionally flawed definitions for 186 philosophical terms including wisdom, justice, fortitude, temperance, knowledge, soul and God. Watercolour Painting: The Great Dragon and the...
Apr 1, 2016
Demodocus (ΔΗΜΟΔΟΚΟΣ) my not have been written by Plato.
The author asks the following questions: If citizens are competent
to vote correctly then why do they need advisors? If either a
complainant or defendant is lying then why is it beneficial to hear
the party who is lying instead of just hearing the...