Afterlife
How Plato was inherited: by Christianity, by Western philosophy, by us.
Plato has been dead since 347 BC and has never once been out of print. Whitehead's quip — that European philosophy is a series of footnotes to Plato — survives because it is close enough to true. His fingerprints are on Christian theology, on every rationalist from Augustine to Descartes, and on the everyday idea that there is a difference between how things look and how they are.
These essays trace the inheritance: who took what from Plato, what they changed in the taking, and what still runs on his machinery today.
75 essays, listed alphabetically.
