The Philosopher's Stone

It occurred to me today that this year marks the fifty-fifth anniversary of my earning a doctorate in philosophy at Harvard.  Since I did no...

I have been a political junkie all my life.   My earliest political memory is the day FDR died [I was eleven].   At fourteen, I went to a He...

This is, to my way of thinking, the high point of the dialogue, even though it is slightly less than half way through.   The discussion now ...

As readers of this blog are aware, after I expressed distress at the political biases of the authors of the spy novels I was reading, I got ...

As I say, I puzzled over this odd turn in the dialogue for quite some time.   Here is what I think is going on.   Polus may insist that it i...

One of the reasons why I have been a little slow in writing my mini-tutorial on Plato's Gorgias is that I have been doing our taxes.  T...

Before turning to the paradox of the powerless tyrant, let me take just a moment to explain why this portion of the dialogue resonated with ...