"Much of the content of so-called Pythagorean teaching appears to be a mix of mystical gobble-de-gook and adulatory ve…"

"In the Protagoras Socrates persuades Protagoras that goodness is identical with pleasure. He advocates a form of hedo…"

"Plato’s metaphysics grew out of that of Parmenides, together with a strong feel for Heraclitus’s account of the physi…"

"Perhaps Heraclitus lived before Parmenides, perhaps he lived after, perhaps he lived at the same time. Whichever way,…"

"Sophistry is one of the methods by which politicians dress up their policies in alien clothing, to pass them off as m…"

"As the Presocratic philosophers bow out and Plato arrives to direct the next drama in the series, the Sophists make a…"

"Even if Melissus’s analysis of the concept of existence is faulty, his procedure is very interesting. He challenges t…"

"Both Democritus and Anaxagoras try to explain the puzzling behaviour of ordinary reality by appeal to a microscopic r…"

"For Heraclitus, the logos is something that we need to learn to notice if we are to understand the true significance …"

"Are these good reasons for worrying about the apparent contradiction? Should either make us feel the need of an expla…"