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28 Apr 2015, 8:51 pm
In all the talk of Plato, polygamy, and political process, there was plenty of reason for concern. [read post]
13 Apr 2015, 9:08 pm
The long-dead brains of history are still quite handy when you need to brandish something with rhetorical flourish—Plato, Aristotle, Shakespeare, Milton, Locke, Adam Smith, John Stewart Mills are some obvious choices. [read post]
10 Apr 2015, 8:51 am
Kristol is one of those Straussians who stopped reading Plato's Republic where justice was defined as doing good to friends and harm to enemies-which means he is really a Schmittean (see my book Leo Strauss Man of Peace, ch. 2 http://www.amazon.com/Leo-Strauss-Peace-Robert-Howse/dp/1107427673.) [read post]
27 Mar 2015, 3:33 pm
Heidegger extends past Plato to the pre-Socratics for a new way to interpret Being; Nietzsche and Schopenhauer throw off conventional morality to express the primacy of the will. [read post]
16 Feb 2015, 7:03 am
...since Socrates taught Plato "on a rock. [read post]
30 Jan 2015, 12:12 pm
Ancient critics of Athenian democracy, such as Plato and Thucydides, argued that the state was dysfunctional because the citizens who ruled it through direct democracy were often too ignorant and irrational to make good decisions. [read post]
27 Jan 2015, 9:36 am
Berkeley Students Complain About Having To Read Aristotle, Plato, Hobbes, Locke, Hegel, Marx, Weber and Foucault. [read post]
19 Jan 2015, 6:28 pm
(Image: Penn State University Archives)To mark this day, I thought I would draw on the connection between Penn State University and the Rev. [read post]
1 Jan 2015, 2:13 pm
Plato and his friends were very pleasedwith the Supreme Court's stance against monopolising abstract ideasReturning to the new Guidance, it differs from the previous Guidance in providing a more lenient eligibility test. [read post]
23 Dec 2014, 12:00 am
Consider the insight of Plato, writing centuries ago in The Republic. [read post]
2 Dec 2014, 8:00 pm
Otro comentario decía: “La venganza es un plato que se sirve mejor frío, con un delicioso complemento de tortura psicológica”. [read post]
1 Dec 2014, 11:34 pm
Otro comentario decía: “La venganza es un plato que se sirve mejor frío, con un delicioso complemento de tortura psicológica”. [read post]
29 Oct 2014, 8:37 pm
Plato 28. [read post]
28 Oct 2014, 9:50 pm
Plato 28. [read post]
14 Oct 2014, 2:31 pm
...Plato's Republic. [read post]
8 Sep 2014, 2:56 pm
Going back at least to Plato’s notion of forms, and probably before, westerners tend to put things in categories – the item we are sitting in is a chair, or a stool, or a box, and fits into that precise category. [read post]
8 Sep 2014, 10:37 am
Her topic, taken from her recent book, Plato at the Googleplex, touched on "mattering," and specifically the not-so-pleasant consequences of privileging what matters to me or to us, and forgetting or not recognizing that if something matters to me or us, then things (although possibly not the same things) must... [read post]
4 Sep 2014, 12:12 pm
Plato tells us that ““You know that the beginning is the most important part of any work, especially in the case of a young and tender thing; for that is the time at which the character is being formed and the desired impression is more readily taken.... [read post]
28 Aug 2014, 11:24 am
(Pix (c) Larry Catá Backer 2014) Since 2010, I have been posting on the development of a new course I have been developing for our first year law school students, "Elements of Law. [read post]
20 Aug 2014, 12:00 am
I kept thinking Plato nailed it; Mr. [read post]
