Plato was an ancient philosopher and the founder of the first institution of higher learning in the Western world. Odysseus Makridis is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Logic at Fairleigh Dickinson University, Madison, New Jersey. He recently published two volumes in Formal Logic, and has also written on Plato's theory of the Forms, ancient Greek philosophy, topics in moral philosophy, and Nietzsche's political philosophy. He has taught at Brandeis University and was a Teaching Fellow at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.