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

Socrates' introduction of the Republic's notorious “noble lie” comes near the ... The noble lie is to serve as charter myth for Plato's good city: a myth of national or civic identity - or rather, two ...

NIWA, Takako 2004. A Study on the "Hypozomata" the Most Important Hanging-Gear of the Greek Trireme. The Journal of Japan Institute of Navigation, Vol. 111, Issue. 0, p. 1. Scott, Dominic 2016.

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

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

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

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 ...

Whether or to what degree Plato's Republic is a utopian work depends on what one means by “utopia,” a word with a notoriously wide range of meanings. I shall simply stipulate that by “utopia” I mean a ...

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