Author - February, 2008
(429-347 BC) is, by any reckoning, one of the most dazzling writers
in the Western literary tradition and one of the most penetrating, wide-ranging,
and influential authors in the history of philosophy. An Athenian citizen
of high status, he displays in his works his absorption in the political
events and intellectual movements of his time, but the questions he raises
are so profound and the strategies he uses for tackling them so richly suggestive
and provocative that educated readers of nearly every period have in some
way been influenced by him, and in practically every age there have been
philosophers who count themselves Platonists in some important respects.
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