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Why Was Socrates Executed?: And Other Papers on Plato

Description of the book

Pithy, easy-to-understand papers on Plato's epistemology, metaphysics, and political philosophy.

Table of contents:

"Why was Socrates executed?"

"The Meaning of Plato's Cave Allegory"

"A One Page Proof of Plato's Theory of Forms"

"Plato's Republic as Pol Potist Bureaucracy"

"The Sociology of Epistemology: The Epistemological Views of Plato and Descartes"

"The Negative Relevance of What Philosophers, especially Plato, Have to Say about Politics"