Myles Burnyeat Bryan Magee on Plato (1987)
The dialogues of Plato are analyzed in this program by Cambridge philosophy professor Miles Burnyeat. Seeing Plato s ideas initially as extensions of those of his teacher, Socrates, Burnyeat explains the development and content of Plato s original; doctrines of knowledge as virtue, the immortality and tripartite division of the soul, and the theory of forms (ideas). Plato s political philosophy is discussed within the context of the notion of the ideal statea political utopia ruled by philosopher kings.
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