Book review: Plato and the Question of Beauty

"Although 'beautiful' is not a usual term of praise in reviews, it is singularly apt in this case. If beauty, as Hyland shows to be the case in the dialogues, is the phenomenon most suited to awaken and energize the philosophic eros of the soul, then not only are Plato’s dialogues beautiful, but so too is Hyland’s new book about the dialogues, and precisely because it so clearly reveals their beauty. ... Hyland has brought the spirit of philosophy in the dialogues to life as few others have done—and so given us a gift very much in the spirit of Plato’s own." —International Journal of the Classical Tradition