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

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

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 ...

Neville Colvin (17th December 1918 – 1st September 1991) was a noted strip New Zealand artist who initially worked as a ...

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

For the first time in almost a century, Georgetown University has a new debate society on campus: the Philonomosian Society. Sept. 4, 2024 marked the first anniversary of its revival, after having ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...