Plato's allegory of the cave is one of the great stories of philosophy, it allowed us to understand how the philosopher ...

I then (section II) go on to discuss the relationship of this Socrates - the one who, as I shall propose, stands constantly behind Plato as he reflects politically - to Callipolis, the second city of ...

Proclus (d.485 CE) was the most prolific and influential of the Neoplatonic philosophers to write commentaries on the works of Plato (d.347 BCE), and his commentary on the Republic is the only ...

The framers didn’t want a king, but a republic with a strong executive was an innovation in 1787.

In his thought-provoking piece “Has Democracy Lost Its Utility?”, published just days ago in the Sierra Leone Telegraph, Abdulai Mansaray ...

In Book X of the Republic, Plato expels the poetry of Homer and his followers- “the poetry of pleasure” as he calls it- from his ideal state by observing that there is an ancient quarrel between ...

The students can help establish a new political party and free the country from the burden of family dynasties.

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Modern-day sophistry goes by various names: Disinformation, political spins, propaganda-setting, and now, after Donald ...

In his blueprint for an ideal society, the Socrates of Plato's Republic emphasizes three especially daring political proposals: first, inclusion of women in the guardian class, on fully equal terms ...

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