Note on Plato, Philebvs 31c

Plato on Leadership

The purpose of this paper is to identify the various dimensions of leadership emerging in Plato's discussions on ideal political governance and then generalize them to fit in with current discussions. The consideration will also cover some areas of organizational ethics, managerial discourses on rhetoric, management of meaning an charismatic leadership are presented. Also the possibility to eva...

Noēsis: Plato on Exact Science

There are two places in Plato’s Dialogues in which he discusses his conception of scientific explanation: the passages on the ‘second best method’ in the Phaedo and the passages on noēsis in the Divided Line simile in Book VI of the Republic. I have written about the first of these in [1986] and I want to discuss the second of them here. The conception in question is of what we would call exact...

Aristotle and Plato on Character

Little about Aristotle's chapter on the voluntariness of character (NE iii 5) is uncontroversial.l Some arguments Aristotle deploys are on their face formally invalid; the position he appears to defend has seemed so absufd that commentators have felt obliged to rescue him from it. Thus we find Susan Sauvd Meyer, Randall Curren, and Jean Roberts, amon&others, arguing that despite appearances Ari...

Socrates and Plato on Poetry

The Post - Modern Attack On Plato

Plato's true speculative greatness, that in virtue of which he constitutes an epoch in the history of philosophy and hence in world history generally, lies in the more precise identification of the idea, a recognition which, a few centuries later, was in general to form the basic element in the ferment of world history and a new configuration of the human spirit. Hegel, Lectures on the History ...