summary" Gerson's book is a highly valuable, well-written contribution to Platonism
research. It persuasively makes a case for understanding Plato's philosophy as a coherent …

Harold Tarrant here explores ancient attempts to interpret Plato's writings, by philosophers
who spoke a Greek close to Plato's own, and provides a fresh, almost primitive reading of …

Scholarship on Plato's dialogues persistently divides its focus between the dramatic or
literary and the philosophical or argumentative dimensions of the texts. But this hermeneutic …

Plato comes to mind first as a philosopher, but we should not forget that he bequeathed his
philosophical understanding to posterity mainly in the form of his literary works. How best to …

Heidegger famously argued that, as “a mere countermovement,” Nietzsche's metaphysics
“necessarily remains, as does everything 'anti,'held fast in the essence of that over against …

In 2005, I published a book titled Aristotle and Other Platonists. In that book, I explored the
idea, virtually ubiquitous in late antiquity, that Aristotle's philosophy was in “harmony” with …

The book is about Plato's use of drama in his dialogues and the philosophical method of
Plato's Socrates. In my study of Plato, I am drawn inexorably to the idea that the way to read …

Abstract This article updates “The State of the Question in the Study of Plato”(Southern
Journal of Philosophy,) based on research covering the years from 1995–2015. Its three …

We argue that Plato's Laws is an example of “Academic accumulation”: an accretion of
material onto a Platonic stem, given its final appearance by someone whose heavily …

The article tries to prove that the famous formula" epekeina tês ousias" has to be understood
in the sense of being beyond being and not only in the sense of being beyond essence. We …