Several lessons on how to live a life of great purpose can be gleaned from Dr Fayemi’s most remarkable journey.

If we flip John Ruskin's famous quote about education ... The great thinkers of antiquity promoted it as unequivocal. Plato argued that training directed to acquiring money or intellect not ...

They defended and parroted the government much as a person of faith might defend and quote sacred Scripture ... we worshipped the flickering shadows of Plato’s cave, while hostile governments ...

IF you are really, really stupid, then it's impossible for you to know that you are really, really stupid, said comedian John Cleese. It is election time. Campaign paraphernalia are annoying. Ads are ...

The late Allan Bloom subtitled his 1987 bestseller, The Closing of the American Mind, as “How Higher Learning Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the ... or literary—exist beyond time and space, as ...

The Republic, the best-known work of ancient Greek philosopher Plato, authored around 375 BC, has shaped western political thought. Greece is now known as the “cradle of democracy”.

So what was Plato’s argument? And could it hold the key to understanding why, across the west, confidence in democracy is declining? Looking for something good? Cut through the noise with a ...

His pupil Plato, however, found that practical knowledge led to the abstractions of metaphysics and political theory. Carol Atack’s “Plato: A Civic Life” traces Plato’s philosophy back to ...

Not only was the first democracy in the world in Athens, but the word itself comes from the Greek demos (people) and kratos (rule). Yet Plato's The Republic relentlessly argues against democracy.

In the complex and often violent political arena of ancient Greece, ideals of civic engagement and self-determination mingled ...

Plato’s well known skepticism of democracy seems the result of his fear of what happens when you put things to a vote. That’s how Socrates died — voted into a death sentence when his case was ...

The Republic, the best-known work of ancient Greek philosopher Plato, authored around 375BC, has shaped western political thought. Greece is now known as the “cradle of democracy”. Not only was the ...