Plato

Recommended reading: Reading Rat


Criticism (articles, essays, reviews):

Parmenides by Raymond Tallis, Prospect, January 2007
(via Arts & Letters Daily)

Hemlock Available in the Faculty Lounge by Thomas Cushman, Chronicle Review, March 16, 2007
(via Arts & Letters Daily)

The Forgotten Virtue: How Plato perceived the importance of courage, by Harvey Mansfield, review of Plato and the Virtue of Courage by Linda R. Rabieh, The Weekly Standard, January 29, 2007

The Seductions of Socrates, by David K. O’Connor, First Things, June/July 2001

The Politics of Transcendence: The Pretentious Passivity of Platonic Idealism, by Claes G. Ryn, Humanitas 1999 No. 2

Plato; or, the Philosopher, by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Representative Men (1850), Chapter II, American Studies at the University of Virginia