After two thousand years
Subtitle: a dialogue between Plato and a modern young man
By: by G. Lowes Dickinson.
Publisher: G. Allen & Unwin
Published: 1930
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 213
Subjects: Plato.; Political science.; Social problems.; Values.
Description: Presents an imagined account of conversation between Plato and Philalethes "A Modern Young Man". In the first part, political and social institutions are considered and property, forms of government, socialism, the control of population, war and education, are discussed. The second part examines the idea of real Goods including the concepts of truth, art and love. In this work, the author sees Plato reaffirming his belief that real Goods come from some higher world, which it is the destiny of the spirits to pursue.