The article explores Plato's preference for dialogue over written treatises, drawing upon an Egyptian tale where King Thamus criticizes writing for hindering memory and wisdom. Plato echoes this ...

A gift of gods to men, as I believe, was tossed down from some divine source through the agency of a Prometheus together with a gleaming fire; and the ancients, who were better than we and lived ...

American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 30, No. 5 (Mar., 1925), pp. 513-533 (21 pages) As a sample of dialectic, The Republic is the foremost exhibit of what sociology is not. One section of the ...