•  21
    Plato’s Cave
    South African Journal of Philosophy 28 (4): 415-432. 2009.
    Current interpretations of Plato’s cave are obviously incorrect because they do not explain how what we hear does not come from what we see. I argue that Plato is saying that the colors we receive from our faculty of vision do not cause the sounds that we receive from our faculty of hearing. I also show how we do not see ourselves or one other, how the shadows on the wall of the cave are images of that which casts them and therefore have less reality than them, and how the cave illustrates the d…Read more
  •  89
    Plato's Cave
    Southwest Philosophy Review 23 (2): 85-110. 2007.
    Current interpretations of Plato’s cave are obviously incorrect because they do not explain how what we hear does not come from what we see. I argue that Plato is saying that the colors we receive from our faculty of vision do not cause the sounds that we receive from our faculty of hearing. I also show how we do not see ourselves or one other, how the shadows on the wall of the cave are images of that which casts them and therefore have less reality than them, and how the cave illustrates the d…Read more
  •  18
    Platon n’est pas sérieux lorsqu’il conduit Socrate à déduire que la poésie doit être essentiellement narrative avec juste un peu de dialogue. Non seulement cette argumentation est-elle intentionnellement fautive, mais Platon crée aussi un Socrate qui obscurcit à dessein une distinction fondamentale. Le Socrate de Platon fait ensuite semblant d’être confus par son propre obscurcissement. En nous obligeant à nous frayer un passage à travers les broussailles de son argumentation erronée, Platon nou…Read more
  •  32
    Republic Book one on the Nature of Justice
    Polis 25 (1): 63-78. 2008.
    Even though the first book of the Republic ends with the claim that the definition of justice has not been determined, a careful analysis of the details of Socrates’ arguments with Polemarchus and Thrasymachus yields a definition of justice. Polemarchus should have defended the understanding of justice as helping friends and harming enemies by saying that, because one can use one’s knowledge either to help or to harm, a just person will choose to use his knowledge of an art either to help his fr…Read more
  •  2
    The Riddle of Socrates' motivation in the "Apology"
    Diálogos. Revista de Filosofía de la Universidad de Puerto Rico 42 (89): 7-24. 2007.
  • Socrates¿ground for believing in absolute truth crito 46B4-49D5
    Diálogos. Revista de Filosofía de la Universidad de Puerto Rico 41 (88): 153-170. 2006.
  •  66
    Manliness in Plato’s Laches
    Dialogue 48 (3): 619. 2009.
    ABSTRACT: Careful analysis of the details of the text allows us to refine Socrates objections to his definition of manliness as prudent perseverance. He does not appreciate that Socrates objections merely require that he make his definition more precise. Nicias refuses to consider objections to his understanding of manliness as avoiding actions that entail risk. The two sets of objections show that manliness entails first calculating that a risk is worth taking and then subsequently not rejectin…Read more
  • Cephalus In Plato’s «republic»
    Existentia 18 (3-4): 215-226. 2008.