PLATO

What This Book Covers

1. Chapter One - The Boy from Athens
2. Chapter Two - Meeting the Master
3. Chapter Three - The Execution
4. Chapter Four - The Philosopher Flees
5. Chapter Five - The Return to Thought
6. Chapter Six - What Is Real?
7. Chapter Seven - The Metaphor to End All Metaphors
8. Chapter Eight - Soul Math
9. Chapter Nine - The Philosopher King
10. Chapter Ten - The Wildest Chapter in The Republic
11. Chapter Eleven - Where Philosophy Becomes Infrastructure
12. Chapter Twelve - Plato vs. the Poets
13. Chapter Thirteen - Atlantis and the Timaeus
14. Chapter Fourteen - Politics and the Laws
15. Chapter Fifteen - The Student and the Legacy
16. Chapter Sixteen - From the Cave to the Code

Excerpt

CHAPTER ONE The Boy from Athens PLATO WASN’T SOME ivory-tower idealist from the jump. He was born around 428 BCE in Athens, in the middle of the Peloponnesian War. His real name was Aristocles. “Plato” was a nickname that likely meant broad, either for his build or his forehead. But don’t let the later robes and rhetoric fool you, this was a kid forged in political collapse. His family was old money. Nobility. On his mother’s side, he was descended from Solon, the legendary lawmaker. His uncles were tight with the Thirty Tyrants, the oligarchic regime that took over Athens after the war. In other words: Plato was born in the room where power happened. But young Aristocles wasn’t gunning for...