Articles

Clear, original introductions to the central ideas in Plato and Socrates.

Republic, Book VII

What Plato's most famous image says about knowledge, education and the cost of seeing clearly.

Method

How Socrates used questions, not lectures, to test ideas and expose what we only think we know.

Dialogues

An overview of Plato's dialogue on justice, the ideal city and the shape of a well-ordered soul.

Metaphysics

Plato's claim that behind changing appearances stand perfect, unchanging realities, and why it still matters.