Phaedo A Platonic Labyrinth

Ronna Burger is the Catherine & Henry J. Gaisman Chair in the Dept. of Philosophy at Tulane University, where she has taught since 1980. She received her PhD from the New School for Social Research Graduate Faculty in 1975, with a dissertation directed by Seth Benardete.  She is the author of books on Plato’s Phaedrus and Phaedo as well as Aristotle’s Dialogue with Socrates: on the Nicomachean Ethics (Chicago, 2008).  Subjects of her numerous essays and public lectures include Maimonides and the Hebrew Bible along with studies of Plato and Aristotle.