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I dedicate this book to my teacher, Professor Wolfgang Mann at Columbia University, for the enthusiasm for philosophy that he generated in me and to my four grandchildren, Fritz, Aliya, Emerson and Zachary.

Hoshang J. Khambatta

A teacher … can never tell where his influence stops.

Henry B. Adams, 1907

The Education of Henry Adams

To Mary Jack, my wife of untallied years. For all her never wavering love and support.

Alvin Wald

Socrates tells Ion (in the dialogue titled Ion) that his prowess in interpreting Homer’s poetry is not because of his mastery of the subject, but because of divine inspiration from Homer’s Muse. Likewise, our interpretation of Plato’s Dialogues are also not because of our mastery of the subject, but because of divine inspiration from Plato’s Muse. Lo and behold, after 2500 years, the Muse is still active.

Hoshang J. Khambatta

“I continue to learn many things as I grow old”

Solon, 630 – 560 B.C.E.

One of the seven sages of Ancient Greece