Reflection on Phaedo by Plato

Plato Seeking for “One Real Explanation” in Phaedo

What this essay is to discuss is Plato''s theory of explanation in Phaedo. In this dialogue, we observe that Socrates criticizes both the natural scientists’ explanations and Anaxagoras’ theory of Mind since he thinks they could not explain all things, firstly, in a unitary and, secondary, in a real way. Thence, we are to call what Plato is seeking as his ideal explanation in Phaedo “One Real E...

Plato on Leadership

The purpose of this paper is to identify the various dimensions of leadership emerging in Plato's discussions on ideal political governance and then generalize them to fit in with current discussions. The consideration will also cover some areas of organizational ethics, managerial discourses on rhetoric, management of meaning an charismatic leadership are presented. Also the possibility to eva...

Noēsis: Plato on Exact Science

There are two places in Plato’s Dialogues in which he discusses his conception of scientific explanation: the passages on the ‘second best method’ in the Phaedo and the passages on noēsis in the Divided Line simile in Book VI of the Republic. I have written about the first of these in [1986] and I want to discuss the second of them here. The conception in question is of what we would call exact...

Aristotle and Plato on Character

Little about Aristotle's chapter on the voluntariness of character (NE iii 5) is uncontroversial.l Some arguments Aristotle deploys are on their face formally invalid; the position he appears to defend has seemed so absufd that commentators have felt obliged to rescue him from it. Thus we find Susan Sauvd Meyer, Randall Curren, and Jean Roberts, amon&others, arguing that despite appearances Ari...

Socrates and Plato on Poetry