THIS delightful little book improves on a second reading. It is a mock Platonic dialogue—not pedantically close to the Greek—purporting to give Socrates' account of a lecture tour he has just taken in ...
Matthew Sharpe works at Deakin. He has received funding from the ARC for work on the history of philosophy as a way of life. He wishes to thank his friend and teacher, Dr. William H. F. Altman, author ...
Author reveals the fourth element of Plato's model, showing how this dimension transforms the understanding of an influential text in Western philosophy REDDING, Calif., Aug. 5, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- ...
Melissa Lane, the Class of 1943 Professor of Politics at Princeton and director of the University Center for Human Values, will give an extended series of distinguished public lectures at Gresham ...
The Aspen experience of today pales by comparison to a vision from 70 years ago when Chicago industrialist and enlightenment thinker Walter Paepcke hoped to create a model of Plato’s Republic. This ...
The Last Judgement (detail), by Michelangelo. Sistine Chapel, Vatican. Source: Wikimedia Commons/Michelangelo/Public Domain Plato concluded the ten books of the Republic with the myth of Er, which ...
Art could really be dangerous. Plato’s expressive theories of art could even be more dangerous. Art, certainly, is not as precarious as Plato makes us believe. In Book Tenof The Republic, Plato, one ...
As Plato himself confessed in later writings, a set of ideas that are idealistic at best and dangerous at worst. The oddly titled "Republic" describes an ant-like system with strict class structure, ...
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