Nearly 2,400 years ago, Plato worried that stories could corrupt susceptible minds. Moral panics over fiction have been common ever since. For Plato, storytelling was a license for bad behavior.Credit ...
The Last Judgement (detail), by Michelangelo. Sistine Chapel, Vatican. Source: Wikimedia Commons/Michelangelo/Public Domain Plato concluded the ten books of the Republic with the myth of Er, which ...
How would you define democracy? The word democracy comes from the Greek words “demos,” meaning people, and “katos,” meaning power. So democracy can be thought of as the “power of the people,” a way of ...
In her review of “Plato Goes to China” by Shadi Bartsch (Bookshelf, Feb. 27), Martha Bayles rightly defends Leo Strauss against the charge that the professor was an antidemocrat who would have favored ...
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