Sentences with phrase «platonic dialogue»

Written as a Platonic dialogue, which I found off - putting, the book argues for two incompatible coherent sets — she calls them syndromes — of moral values that govern work: the guardian syndrome and the commercial syndrome.

The Caradrio is a mythological creature, a legendary bird mentioned by Socrates in the Platonic dialogue «Gorgia» to portray the habits of the lustful man.

A father and grandfather, Herst regularly engages with parents in the form of Platonic dialogue — a cooperative Q - & - A approach meant to stimulate critical thinking — to yield logic - based solutions for raising happy children.

Its boldness of movement can never be clear to those who think of the Platonic dialogues as a mass of astute but non-committal propositions.

It appears in numerous Platonic dialogues in various forms, and receives an in - depth and penetrating analysis in Aristotle's On the Soul.

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Earlier in his Dialogue, Justin had discussed the Platonic view of the soul and rejected it, maintaining that the soul should not be called immortal, for that would imply it had not been begotten.

But the final and the most compelling evidence for Platonic dipolar theism comes from two late dialogues we have yet to consider, the Parmenides and the Sophist.