As a medical student I once heard Dr. Osler remark that he almost wished he could have lived in the fifth century before Christ so he could have sat at the feet of Hippocrates under the old plane tree on the Island of Cos and have listened to his discourses on medicine. This chance remark excited in me a persistent desire to visit, at some future date, this Island of Cos and sit down, myself, u...

that directs and is the cause of everything.” [1] With moments to expire before Athens would execute him, Plato’s Socrates was exploring the meaning of a few lines by another philosopher. To the last minute of Socrates’ dramatic life, Plato has him making important criticism on vital literary texts. Textual criticism is found throughout Plato’s works, making it his main philosophical methodolog...

According to Socrates, as he is described in Plato?s Phaedo, the definition of a true philosopher wise man who continuously practicing dying and being dead. Already this life, tries free his soul from body order acquire knowledge progressively becoming detached body. Centuries after it was written, Phaedo continued play role for some early Christian authors, article focuses on three instances w...

The text seeks to explore the significance of repeated questioning mimesis in tenth book Plato?s Republic. Initially, question appears follow typical Socratic form inquiry, asking what something is. However, is more complex than it because Socrates states that he does not know ?What trying be??, before calling for his usual following sentence. attempts elucidate particularity about by examining...

The Symposium of Plato presents the demythologizing of the god Eros, that is, the rational clarification of his nature. At a dinner to celebrate the victory of the tragic poet Agathon in the Theatre, the guests all give speeches in honour of the god. Of the initial speakers, neither the comic poet Aristophanes nor the tragic poet Agathon can give more than a partial account of his nature, and i...