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This is a link to a youtube video that explains Logos in the first part of the video.

This site goes over the history of the philosophy called Form and how it came to be, as well as describes it more fully.

this is a PDF. So click on the last link on the first page. It is called "what is a philosopher".

Please attach the link to the PDF so that users do not need to search and scroll. Thanks! Dr. Halverson

Just a little song about the process of the scientific method!

Plato: The Republic

The key term "quintessence" is discussed mostly in the second paragraph.

Excellent, concise overview of Plato's life.

This article explains what pathos is and how it originated.

This is a short video illustrating Plato's "Allegory of the Cave" in the second part, chapter VII, of his work titled, "The Republic."

Can be used to settle some of the scholarly debates surrounding Plato's: The Republic. This resource not only allows a deeper understanding of this classic text, but it can also reveal other ulterior motives for Plato's impressive blueprint for a sociopolitical utopia.

As this overview makes clear, the center of Plato's Republic is a contribution to ethics: a discussion of what the virtue justice is and why a person should be just. Yet because Socrates links his discussion of personal justice to an account of justice in the city and makes claims about how good and bad cities are arranged, the Republic sustains reflections on political questions, as well.

This website goes deep into the ethics and politics of Plato's, The Republic.