Why Was Socrates Executed?: And Other Papers on Plato

Pithy, easy-to-understand papers on Plato's epistemology, metaphysics, and political philosophy.Table of contents:"Why was Socrates executed?""The Meaning of Plato's Cave Allegory""A One Page Proof of Plato's Theory of Forms""Plato's Republic as Pol Potist Bureaucracy""The Sociology of Epistemology: The Epistemological Views of Plato and Descartes""The Negative Relevance of What Philosophers, especially Plato, Have to Say about Politics"