Kenneth Dorter’s Can Different Cultures Think the Same Thoughts? is a study of fundamental issues in metaphysics and ethics across major philosophical traditions of the world, including the way in wh
"The Republic," Dorter writes, "is Plato's most comprehensive dialogue, but whether it is coherent as well as comprehensive has been the subject of considerable debate." Changes in the direction and m
Kenneth Dorter, in a passage-by-passage analysis, traces Plato's depiction of how the most basic forms of human functioning and social justice contain the seed of their evolution into increasingly com
