In America today, an impeached former leader, whose lies threaten the very structure of democracy, is maneuvering to return to power.

Born in 427 BC, Plato fled Athens in 399 BC after Socrates was executed, blaming democracy and the Peloponnesian War for his teacher's death. An aristocrat and an elitist, much of what we know ...

During Socrates' youth Athens was a city at the height of its power and the intellectual center of the Greek world. The spirit of openness which democracy encouraged had given rise to new fields ...

Do the wise always succeed? A split-level reading of Euthydemus 278–282 . British Journal for the History of Philosophy, p. 1. What model of knowledge does Plato's Socrates use? In this book, Nicholas ...

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Written at a time when there were different norms around sexual morality, Plato’s Symposium is one of the principal sources ...

In her newly published seventh book, Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America, BC Professor of History Heather Cox Richardson examines the long, intricate path to today’s fraught, ...

This was likely due, in part, to his criticisms of Athenian democracy as they are reflected in Plato’s writings. When given ...

Committee members tasked to visit, convince PTI to attend ; Ahsan Iqbal says there is no "predecided name"; PTI says will not ...