SIR: Plato in the 375 BC developed a framework on the nature of politics and governance that combined political skill and philosophical knowledge in an ideal state. To Plato, an ideal state, “can ...

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 ...

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Description: What draws us to politics? Is political ambition an extension or a betrayal of the love of other human beings? What is the relationship between the ordering of our loves and public order?

The Narrow Passage: Plato, Foucault, and the Possibility of Political Philosophy, by Glenn Ellmers (Encounter, 120 pp., $24.99) Believe it or not, my local indie bookstore was bustling on a recent ...

An ancient Greek philosopher of the Classical period, Plato is considered a fundamental piece of the Western philosophy puzzle. A student of Socrates and a teacher of Aristotle, Plato's thinking ...

Plato and Aristotle in discussion, 1437, by Luca della Robbia (ca 1400-1482), marble tile, depicts two of the greatest philosophers, who wrote two of the all-time best philosophy books. Philosophy ...

As is often noted, piety is not among the list of moral and intellectual virtues mentioned by Aristotle in the Ethics. I argue that this is neither an oversight on Aristotle’s part nor a subtle way ...