……………………… Ian Mason I should now define for you, clearly and without complication, what I mean by just and unjust. For I refer to the tyranny, in the soul, of […]
Category Archives: Plato
‘It’s all in Plato’-C.S. Lewis on the Theory of Forms: Republic V:476b-d
When Aslan said you could never go back to Narnia, he meant the Narnia you were thinking of. But that was not the real Narnia. That had a beginning and […]
‘The need for non-violent gadflies’- Apology 30d-31e (Martin Luther King)
LETTER FROM BIRMINGHAM JAIL April 16, 1963 MY DEAR FELLOW CLERGYMEN: ….Just as Socrates felt that it was necessary to create a tension in the mind so that individuals could […]
Everyone desires the good – Meno 77c-78b (contributed by Jane Mason)
This short piece of argument is set within the larger question debated by the Meno – what is virtue and can it be taught? Meno presents a series of definitions […]