http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/keyword/socrates Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Sun, 17 May 2026 23:08:16 -0400 Sun, 17 May 2026 23:08:16 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1665/pederasty-and-power-in-platos-mythological-dialogues By Paul Regan - As a topic of philosophical interest the Socratic dialogues play a pivotal role in many of Plato’s works of more than thirty authentic dialogues. This paper discusses pederasty and power through myth and story-telling to teach Ancient Greek communities about the soul, morality and character through three of Plato’s mythological dialogues on Socrates: Symposium, Phaedrus and the Republic. Each work falls within several categories of investigation, speculation and argumentation. The re-telling of a story suggests that myth offers an economical framework from which to balance the soul... Thu, 26 Oct 2017 05:18 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1665/pederasty-and-power-in-platos-mythological-dialogues http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1310/john-stuart-mills-solution-to-the-problem-of-socrates-in-the-autobiography By N L. N - Ever since its posthumous publication, John Stuart Mill’s Autobiography has elicited reactions of primarily disappointment and confusion. Thomas Carlyle famously deemed the book the “autobiography of a steam-engine” (quoted in Levi 295) and readers since have generally agreed with his verdict. Leslie Stephen and Harold Laski argue that Mill’s Autobiography is “severely deficient,” (Levi 284) on account of its mechanical and emotionally sterile prose and its complete lack of details about any aspects of Mill’s life which are not obviously relevant to his... Mon, 16 Nov 2015 08:02 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1310/john-stuart-mills-solution-to-the-problem-of-socrates-in-the-autobiography http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1140/platos-republic-as-moral-poetry By Benjamin R. Tarr - One of the greatest ironies of Plato's Republic is that, although he condemns the poets and exiles them from his idyllic city, the Republic is perhaps one of the greatest literary works of all time, and a poem in its own right. Although written in prose, it is riddled with intricate symbolism and poetic elements. What sets it apart from the works of poets like Homer is that Plato makes every possible effort to educate his readers in a positive way, rather than presenting them with the dangerous sort of education he finds other poets guilty of. This is clear from many of the arguments presented... Mon, 14 Sep 2015 07:55 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1140/platos-republic-as-moral-poetry