Platonism · c. 428/427–348/347 BCE
Plato
Learning to see beyond appearances.
Athens, Greece
Reading guides
A thread to guide your reading.
Original introductions to enter the works, discover their central questions and take the reflection further.
Leaving the cave, returning to the city
Connect the famous image of the cave with Republic’s political project. The question is not only who sees truly, but what that understanding obliges someone to do.
RepublicWhat desire makes us seek
Read Symposium as a conversation with several voices rather than a single formula about love. Eros brings lack, beauty, education and the wish to endure into speech.
SymposiumThinking about the soul through argument
Enter Phaedo through its proposed proofs, objections and dramatic setting. Socrates’ serenity does not replace examination of what he claims.
Phaedo