A sort of analytic philosophy. Its methodology and inspiration

Abstract

A Platonist methodology for a sort of analytic philosophy is expounded and defended. The Platonic analysis that figures in the dialogues, inquiries into the nature of various phenomena that constitute human flourishing, individual or collective. In such Platonic analysis we try to understand phenomena such as knowledge, justice, responsibility, love, beauty, virtue, personal identity and its survival through time. Such phenomena of human flourishing have been of persistent and profound interest to philosophers of various times and traditions, which is why it seems so natural and appropriate that the so-called humanities give them a prominent place, even if that sort of study remains exceptional sociologically among the humanities as they are presently constituted.