Delivered as lectures at Oxford, these chapters set Plato in his intellectual world: the Heraclitean doctrine of motion, the Eleatic doctrine of rest, Pythagorean number, Socrates and the Sophists, then Plato’s own genius, his theory of ideas, his dialectic, Lacedaemon as an ideal and the vision of the Republic.
Elegant criticism from the author of The Renaissance, as much literature as philosophy. Download the free EPUB.