Plato, 1990

• Apology @ Jan 04
  The traditional beginning of Platonic philosophy. The reported statements made by Socrates during the trial at which he was condemned to death by the state.
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• Phaedo @ Jan 11
  The Dialogue concerned with life after death during Socrates final hours of life in prison.
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• Gorgias @ Jan 18
  Socrates dialogue with the famous teacher of Rhetoric who champions Power as the greatest good for man leading to happiness.
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• Meno @ Jan 25
  Can goodness or essential virtue be taught on the basis of remembrance from past lives? What teacher could do this? Socrates says: "Such a man would be a solid reality among shadows."
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• Protagoras @ Feb 01
  Socrates questions the greatest Sophist of the day about what it is exactly that he teaches. One of Plato's most enduring portraits of men juggling the roots of ethics and social power. Is "Man the Measure of all things?"
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• Phaedrus @ Feb 08
  The great conversation about love as the beginning of the understanding that we should seek "The Beyond" and about the nature and function of language in this seeking.
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• Symposium @ Feb 15
  "The most brilliant of all Plato's achievements as dramatic artist.'' A.E. Taylor.
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• Republic @ Feb 22
  In this greatest dialogue of the entire work Plato uses logic and myth to disclose the philosophic structure of Plato's Republic ''By what rules shall man live?''
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• Theaetetus @ Mar 01
  What is Knowledge? Pythagorean in tone this Socratic dialogue finally characterizes the free man who "always has time at his disposal to converse in peace at his leisure."
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• Parmenides @ Mar 08
  The most puzzling of all Plato's works. No consensus yet exists on the exact meaning of this mysterious excursion into truth and its way.
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• Sophist @ Mar 15
  Plato's important clearing up of fundamental existential quandaries frequently enmeshed in unclear language. The first part of a two part dialogue.
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• Statesman @ Mar 22
  Part two of the Sophist. Statesman tandem leading to "a picture drawn to perfection of the true king and statesman."
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• Timaeus @ Mar 29
  Plato's cosmology. Perhaps the most profound single influence in Western Philosophy.
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