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29 Jun 2016, 7:45 am by lpcprof
Examining the writings of Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics, and the Neoplatonists, Struck demonstrates that they all observed how, setting aside the charlatans and swindlers, some people had premonitions defying the typical bounds of rationality. [read post]
3 Jul 2010, 6:59 am by StephanieWestAllen
Among the next generation of his students was Plato, who together with Aristotle went on to lay the foundations of Western philosophy, logic, math, and science.There always have been and will continue to be generational differences. ...Click to read the rest of "Irresistible Force Meets Immovable Object: Generational Conflict in the Legal Profession" (Wisconsin Lawyer). [read post]
24 Sep 2011, 7:37 am by StephanieWestAllen
Some 2,500 years ago, Plato complained about the paternalism that characterized some doctors. [read post]
19 Oct 2023, 6:50 am by Patrick Bracher (ZA)
These arguments get about as esoteric as the reasoning of the philosopher Plato regarding concrete beings acquiring their essence in relation to their “forms” as the essential models or paradigms of which other things are copies. [read post]
6 Apr 2008, 4:58 am
At least since Plato banished the poet from his ideal republic, law and poetry seem like things to be valued separately. [read post]
23 Mar 2012, 10:03 pm
Biggiam was arrested March 14, the day she was to report for work at Plato’s Closet, Naperville police said. [read post]
15 Jan 2007, 5:26 am
You don't have to know about Plato and Aristotle to serve. [read post]
22 Oct 2022, 12:45 pm by Michael Froomkin
So we have a photo of incredible concealment, undermined by sunlight, resulting in shadows almost worthy of Plato’s cave–except without distortion! [read post]
1 Jul 2007, 12:52 am
It is an age-old question, one that harks back to Plato, who in his "Laws" saw the need to punish by death those who commit egregious crimes.Supporters of capital punishment usually put forward three arguments to justify state-sanctioned killing of those who take the life of another. [read post]
23 Jul 2019, 8:44 am by Sandy Levinson
”  Columbia’s web site describes “CC,” a required two-semester sophomore course, as offering “surveys [of] the history of moral and political thought from Plato to the present. [read post]
13 Dec 2023, 12:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
Statue of Plato, Credit: vasiliki / Getty Images The book traces the development of western philosophy from the pre-Socratics through Plato (whom he rates as one of the two greatest philosophers); through the Middle Ages; to the English empiricists including Immanuel Kant (the other greatest philosopher in his judgment) and Schopenhauer; to Bertrand Russell and his epigones; and finally to Karl Popper. [read post]
6 Mar 2009, 6:25 am
  The concept of causation, of which anti-concurrent cause theory is a part, and of 'illusory' coverage are just some of the shadows on Plato's cave wall. [read post]
2 Jul 2008, 7:25 am
I'm ashamed to say I've never read either Plato's Dialogues or Homer's Odyssey, so I can't comment on either of them. [read post]
15 Feb 2023, 12:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
She makes the error of attributing to most Periclean Greeks the qualities Plato ascribes to Socrates. [read post]
5 Feb 2010, 9:59 am by Lawrence Solum
The essay endeavors to show that our contemporaries, Ronald Dworkin and Richard Posner, are reenacting a version of the dispute between the paradigmatic philosophical moralist Plato and the paradigmatic historical realist Thucydides. [read post]
17 Mar 2023, 7:22 am by Chris Castle
Plato asks if an act is unjust solely because you get caught or is it unjust regardless of whether you are hidden from sight or apprehension. [read post]