Plato, Republic II. 368 A and Symposium 174B

Anaesthesia for the Republic of Plato *

While Plato wished to rise to a knowledge of the Supreme Idea through the realization of the lower ideas, and showed that these contain the essence of things, he pointed out that it is the object of science completely to disclose the attributes of all entities, the idea of good being the key-stone of all rational investigation. Notwithstanding the remoteness of the perfect State, advances in an...

The Treatment Of Poetry In The Symposium Of Plato

The Symposium of Plato presents the demythologizing of the god Eros, that is, the rational clarification of his nature. At a dinner to celebrate the victory of the tragic poet Agathon in the Theatre, the guests all give speeches in honour of the god. Of the initial speakers, neither the comic poet Aristophanes nor the tragic poet Agathon can give more than a partial account of his nature, and i...

Plato and Innatism

Plato and Innatism

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Fabrication of precisely designed active biomaterials is of great interest in many areas of bionanotechnology including regenerative medicine, drug screening, and biosensors. Microand nanometre scale defined patterns have been developed which can control the spacing and density of signaling molecules through top-down microfabrication approaches, such as photolithography, e-beam lithography, and...