Rediscovering Plato

Having read Plato some years ago, at that time still young, and an inexperienced student. But I never found him attractive, as a philosopher. Not that his ideas were unsympathetic to me, I could live in peace with his realm of ideas and his dualism of body and soul, but the argumentative style of his dialogs didn't appeal much to me. Instead, I was often nerved by it. As the argumentation is based on dialogs, instead of on a logical demonstration to which I prefer, as an less patient young woman. But now, while reading more of Greek literature, I discover something which I disregarded before: the Plato's dialogs, though containing his philosophy projects, are not to be read as philosophical tracts. Instead, they are poetical works with philosophical background. No wonder that he inspired in the Renaissance more poets and musicians than philosophers. His dialogs mirror also the living environments in Ancient Greece. It was not wondrous that I could at first so hard acquainted myself with his dialog. Aristotle's works are more universal and less dependent on culture backgrounds, because of the style they were written: most of them purely academical.

Well, now I win a new friend - Plato. Will start re-reading him soon. Have just read his Symposium again, find it beautiful.

A nice discovery.