Now, back to Plato. Plato’s radical solution to the danger of a democracy giving birth to a Trump-like tyrant is to eliminate democracy. That’s right. Plato was no friend of democracy. In his greatest ...

In any Greek city, there are perhaps no more than fifty good draught-players, and certainly not as many kings. –Plato, Statesman In one of Plato’s books, the philosopher Protagoras tells a genesis ...

I spent most of the past 15 years translating the complete works of Plato from Ancient Greek into English, and these ...

Socrates’ method was to clear his students’ minds of abstractions and assumptions, so that they might attain self-knowledge and learn the practical wisdom of living well. His pupil Plato, however, ...

I first read Plato as an undergraduate. Later, I studied his work in depth during my Ph.D. coursework. Plato viewed democracy as a form of tyranny. He argued that democracy gives power to people who ...

One of my less than admirable traits is to attempt to categorize and organize everything into its simplest terms. All too often, simple devolves to simplistic as I keep trying to pound an unwilling ...

Strictly speaking, there can be no biography of Plato — only what Carol Atack calls a “biographical tradition.” Exactly when he was born, exactly where he traveled, and to what extent his famous ...

Prologue I learned a few things about Plato in high school and in my university classes on ancient and medieval Greek history. I improved that meager ...

High-profile experts are staging two separate Washington press conferences Tuesday to demand action on public-debt problems. One group is targeting state budget crises; the other, the federal budget ...

Democracy has had its fair share of critics. So what is it, and what should it be? A government by the people, for the people sounds like a good idea. But is democracy really all it’s cracked up to be ...