Reading Plato: Between Tragedy and Comedy in Cratylus

Reading and Writing Plato

W did Plato write dialogues? How should his dialogues be read (does the literary form matter, for example, to our getting at the heart of what Plato is saying)? These questions are now familiar in contemporary Plato scholarship, and their answers—which undoubtedly are interconnected—are the subject of lively and fascinating exploration. Any doubt that Platonic studies -ourishes would quickly be...

Plato Comicus and the Evolution of Greek Comedy

the relationship between learners critical thinking ability and their performance in the reading sections of the tofel and ielts test

the study reflected in this thesis aims at finding out relationships between critical thinking (ct), and the reading sections of tofel and ielts tests. the study tries to find any relationships between the ct ability of students and their performance on reading tests of tofel and academic ielts. however, no research has ever been conducted to investigate the relationship between ct and the read...

Iconologies: Reading Simulations with Plato and Nietzsche

cognitive mode. Indeed Socrates asserts that as the levels of cognition are ascended, with the character of "clearness" and "precision," so do their objects "...partake of truth and reality." Unfortunately, just as the "Good" itself was left unexplained as a causal principle in the sun eikon, so is that unhypothetical first principle also left unexplained here, in the divided line. Most importa...

Effectiveness of PLATO in Improving Reading Skills