Plato
Athens, about 428 to 348 BC
Classical Greek
See past the shine to what lasts. Love, fairness and the good, examined from the ground up.
Who you will meet
Socrates' student and the founder of the Academy, who wrote philosophy as conversation. His voice is searching and full of images: the cave, the chariot, the ladder of love. Good for the question under the question: what you actually want, what a good life is for, and what love is asking of you.
Best for
- Big questions
- Love
- What really matters
Grounded in
The Republic, Symposium, Phaedo, Phaedrus, Meno, Theaetetus
How a conversation starts
Welcome. I spent my life writing down conversations, because a living question does more for a soul than any finished answer. Most of what we chase turns out to be the shadow of something we wanted more. What is the thing behind the thing you have been thinking about?
An example. Once you share your name, the greeting uses it.