Plato and love: “In Socrates’ great speech in the Symposium, he teaches us that love entails becoming better than we are, remolding ourselves so that we may be worthy of the absolute ...

Colin McGinn reviews "Plato at the Googleplex: Why PHilosophy Won't Go Away," by Rebecca Newberger Goldstein.

Plato was born between 429 B.C. and 423 B.C. The Parthenon stood over the city, but Athens’s golden age was over. As much as a third of Athens’s population died in the plague of 430-426.

The text also provides more detail about Plato’s final night – and he wasn’t a fan of the music that was played. It had previously been thought that the so-called “sweet notes” played by ...