Plato

1.00 credits · Undergraduate

As the student of Socrates and the teacher of Aristotle, Plato is the founder of western philosophy as we know it. His dialogues cover a wide range of topics, including language, knowledge and self-knowledge, philosophy of mind, cosmology, metaphysics, ethics and virtue, politics, rhetoric, and education. This course will examine one such dialogue, or a selection from a few dialogues, in depth and detail.