The dialogues of Thucydides and Phidias

One of the most lively, fertile, and rich dialogues of Plato in ideas, due to the importance of the subject he addressed, which is the nature of knowledge. The problem of scientific knowledge was a pressing issue in the era when Plato wrote this dialogue. Among the most important topics Plato discussed in this dialogue is the "sensible theory" in knowledge that unites science and sensory knowledge. As for the dialogue of Phaedrus, it is one of the most important dialogues that revealed to Plato a positive theory of art and the philosophy of beauty. And this is not surprising for a philosopher who raised the problem of art in his writings more than two thousand years ago, and his philosophy was the fruit of a period of the most glorious eras of art throughout history, an era in which tragedy, rhetoric, sculpture, and painting reached maturity and perfection. In this dialogue in particular, we find a new interpretation of the ideal model of Platonic art, which is the art that expresses the perfect unity of goodness, beauty, and truth, that Trinity revealed by the artist in his obsession and inspiration, as well as revealed by the philosopher in his intuition of the world of ideals and in the experience of love close to the attraction and inspiration of poets.