Writings related to Platonism. See also: Plato and Neoplatonism.
Perusing an internet forum on intelligent design some months ago brought me to an unusual post by David Alexander entitled “Is beauty just Darwin’s bad… Read More »Plato on Intelligent Design: Truth, Beauty, and the Good
Ever since the rise of Greek rationalism, and probably long before that, myths have had bad reviews. In the early 5th century bce Xenophanes openly challenged Olympian… Read More »Plato’s Myths and the Mystery Tradition
The words gnosis and gnosticism have come into our thinking these days largely because of the discoveries of a Gnostic library at Nag Hammadi, Egypt, in 1945, and of… Read More »The Gnosis according to Plato
A student at one of the Eastern colleges of the United States writes in that he has more questions than time to ask, and these… Read More »On Plato’s Theory of Ideas
During the lifetime of Plato there was little if any dissension among his pupils. But after his death in 347 B.C. a decided breach occurred.… Read More »From Plato to the Neoplatonists
When Socrates was sixty years old, Plato, then a youth of twenty, came to him as a pupil. When Plato was sixty years old, the… Read More »Plato and Aristotle
One night in the year 407 B.C., Socrates had a dream. He saw a graceful white swan flying toward him with a melodious song trilling… Read More »Plato
The Age of the Tyrants, which produced the “Seven Wise Men,” the early Ionian School and the Pythagorean School, ended about 500 B.C. Shortly afterward… Read More »Socrates
“‘Eagle! why soarest thou above that tomb?To what sublime and starry-paven homeFloatest thou?’‘I am the image of great Plato’s spiritAscending heaven; Athens doth inheritHis corpse… Read More »The Teachings of Plato
[Introduction] The following is an exploration of the Platonic Charioteer Allegory, an allegory which appears not only in Greek philosophy, but also in Indian spiritual texts,… Read More »Plato’s Chariot Allegory, with the Commentary of Hermeas
The good, which is here celebrated by Socrates as that which reigns in the intelligible place, is neither the same with that which subsists in… Read More »On “The Good” and “The One” of Plato
With an introduction, copious notes, and an Apology for the Fables of Homer by Proclus, introducing the 2nd and 3rd Books of the Republic. Stephanus… Read More »The Republic
With Taylor’s “Additional Notes,” drawn from the MS Commentary of Proclus. Stephanus numbers included. Contents Introduction Translation Additional Notes Introduction1 The most peculiar and firm… Read More »The First Alcibiades
[p. iii] “Philosophy,” says Hierocles,1 “is the purification and perfection of human life. It is the purification, indeed, from material irrationality, and the mortal body;… Read More »General Introduction to the Philosophy and Writings of Plato
As some apology may be thought necessary for having introduced, in the course of the following translation, certain unusual words of Greek origin, I shall… Read More »Explanation of Certain Platonic Terms
[p. 1] Let us now speak of the race of the philosopher, not for the sake of relating many particulars concerning him, but rather with… Read More »Olympiodorus’s Life of Plato
Full Title: THE WORKS OF PLATO VIZ. HIS FIFTY-FIVE DIALOGUES, AND TWELVE EPISTLES TRANSLATED FROM THE GREEK; NINE OF THE DIALOGUES BY THE LATE FLOYER… Read More »The Works of Plato