A Brief Survey of Socratic and Platonic Metaphysics

Stepping in the Same River Twice:
The Metaphysics of Plato and the Presocratics
He who cannot draw on three thousand years
is living hand to mouth
- Goethe
The SS Sardine is a fine, sea-going vessel. Its owner however, is quite bent on wanting an entirely new boat. Instead of investing the money into buying a whole boat, she figures that she will simply transform the Sardine into a new boat herself. For a period of twelve months, the owner replaces every single plank used in the Sardine's construction with fresh lumber from Home Depot. …