13-06-2025
‘Plato and the Tyrant' humanizes the famous philosopher
In my roughly 10 years of philosophical education — four in college, one in a master's program and five as a PhD candidate — it never occurred to me that Plato was a person. Of course, I read and discussed him in countless seminars and lectures, but he was always conscripted to serve as an avatar of an intellectual tradition or an emissary of a philosophical tendency — as everything but a flesh-and-blood human being.
