Plato as Mystic: Philosophy as a Way of Life:

Is Plato the father of Western rationalism-or a mystic who sought union with the divine? In Plato as Mystic, scholar Dwight A. Mendoza challenges the conventional portrait of Plato as a purely rational philosopher. Through close readings of the Phaedo, Symposium, Republic, Phaedrus, Timaeus, Parmenides, and the Seventh Letter, Mendoza reveals a Plato whose ultimate concern was not logical argumentation alone, but the transformation of the soul toward divine reality. This book traces the mys...