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The 129 pages that link to Plato, each with the reason it gives.

• Leo StraussBroader topic: Strauss treated Plato’s dialogues as carefully composed works whose dramatic form matters philosophically.

• Philosophy of educationRelated: His Republic presents education as a means of forming just people and governing a just city.

• PlatonismRelated: The modern position borrows its name from Plato's account of a reality beyond perception.

• The School of AthensRelated: He strides at the fresco’s center, gesturing toward the heavens.

• Aesthetics of musicRelated: His suspicion of music’s emotional influence made its ethical effects a lasting question.

• Alain BadiouRelated: Badiou presents himself as a Platonist committed to mathematical truth and universal ideas.

• Platonic realismRelated: His dialogues provide the primary source for the Forms that define Platonic realism.

• The GoodRelated: Plato gives the Good its canonical role as the highest Form.

• The Open Society and Its EnemiesBroader topic: Popper reads Plato’s ideal state as a model of closed, hierarchical society.

• ApologyRelated: He composed the literary account that preserves this version of Socrates’ defense.

• Cardinal virtuesRelated: In the Republic, he connects wisdom, justice, moderation, and courage to the well-ordered city and soul.

• Martin Litchfield WestRelated: West edited and studied ancient Greek texts beyond poetry, including Plato’s work.

• MetaphilosophyRelated: His dialogues established enduring models of philosophical inquiry and argument.

• ObjectivismRelated: His distinction between enduring reality and appearances is an early influential objectivist strand.

• Social philosophyRelated: His Republic offers an influential account of justice and the ideal organization of society.

• Sophistic movementCompared with: His dramatic portrayals often criticize Sophists for selling instruction and prioritizing persuasion.

• StesichorusRelated: The Phaedrus repeats the story that Stesichorus lost and regained his sight through his treatment of Helen.

• The World as Will and RepresentationRelated: Schopenhauer adapts Plato’s Forms as grades through which will becomes objectified.

• Conceptions of GodRelated: His account of the Good influenced later ideas of ultimate reality.

• DiogenesCompared with: Ancient stories cast his cultivated philosophical authority against Diogenes’ deliberately abrasive practice.

• Female hysteriaRelated: The Timaeus describes a restless uterus as a cause of illness in women.

• Government (form of rule)Related: His Republic offered an influential critique of democracy and account of political decline.

• History of ethicsRelated: His account of justice and the Form of the Good became foundational to later ethics.

• Kwasi WireduRelated: Wiredu’s training in the Western canon informed his critical comparisons with Akan concepts.

• Mary RenaultRelated: His era and political world provide the historical setting for The Mask of Apollo.

• Robert M. PirsigCompared with: Pirsig’s account of value revisits the conflict between classical forms and changing experience.

• Science in classical antiquityRelated: His account of knowledge and mathematical order influenced later natural philosophy.

• Sophie's WorldBroader topic: Plato's ideas anchor the novel's account of classical philosophy.

• Theoretical philosophyRelated: His Forms and account of knowledge became lasting models of theoretical inquiry.