![]() ![]() And in the end we are not left with a dogmatic philosophy that we should follow, but rather a Socratic method of questioning and the familiar quotation: "An unexamined life is not worth living." has created this resource of Plato's works on audio, along with audio books and courses about Plato and Socrates. We hear Plato's political philosophies regarding the three forms of government: aristocracy, democracy, and monarchy. As Alfred North Whitehead said, "The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato." Through the many Socratic Dialogues which Plato wrote and Plato's Republic we come to know his theory of the forms embodied in the true, the good, and the beautiful. ![]() To understand western philosophy you must begin with Plato and his teacher Socrates. ![]()
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