Socrates adopts the dianoetic method in his use of the city/soul analogy to investigate justice and its effects on the soul in Books 2–4 and 8–9. Significantly, conclusions from these arguments have ...

Angela Hobbs, Plato and the Hero: Courage, Manliness and the Impersonal Good (Cambridge University Press, 2000) Angela Hobbs, Plato's Republic (Ladybird Expert Book, to be published 2018) ...

Plato’s iconic work, the most widely assigned text by any author at America’s top universities, considers the possibility of an ideal society, the responsibilities of philosophers and the very ...

Plato’s Republic is one of the most influential books in history. It has been claimed by people on all sides of the political spectrum and continues to resonate today.

The book sets Plato’s work in context, introduces the major themes and provides a detailed discussion of the key sections and passages of the text. Purshouse goes on to explore some of the areas of ...

Nearly 2,400 years ago, Plato worried that stories could corrupt susceptible minds. Moral panics over fiction have been common ever since.

In this critical but judicious study, Blackburn (Truth: A Guide) regards what's considered the greatest of Plato's Socratic dialogues as "the foodstuff of unintelligent fundamentalisms." Hitler ...

In The Philosopher Kings, the squabbling factions from The Just City have all founded their own versions of Plato's Republic a few miles apart, and Kebes — the first book's troublemaker — has ...

I have often argued that I would not let any teacher into a school unless – as a minimum – they had read, carefully and well, the three great books on education: Plato’s Republic, Rousseau ...

THE aim of this important book, by Prof. R. C. Lodge, of the University of Manitoba, is to meet the needs of students of educational theory, "of those who are interested in Plato as thinker and ...