Explore Plato's powerful quote about the real tragedy of adult fears and the importance of facing truth and self-awareness ...

If you knew you could commit any crime and never get caught, would you still choose a righteous life? Does acting justly lead to greater happiness than injustice? These are the questions that launch ...

Plato never wrote a dialogue called "The Republic." He wrote the Politeia (Πολιτεία), which translates to "constitution." But here's what few people know: ancient editors felt this title alone was ...

One of my less than admirable traits is to attempt to categorize and organize everything into its simplest terms. All too often, simple devolves to simplistic as I keep trying to pound an unwilling ...

Plato has a bad reputation in many circles because his most famous work, The Republic, appears to defend all sorts of ideas that are unpalatable to most contemporary readers, ideas such as that people ...

“Come then, tell me, dear friend, how tyranny arises. That it is an outgrowth of democracy is fairly plain.” So begins part two of Plato’s Republic. In light of the recent storming of the Capitol, ...