Ruling is a skilled trade, Plato argues. And like any other trade, not everyone has the talent or the training to be good at ...

The ancient Greek philosopher Plato thought that love might cause feelings like attraction and pleasure, which are out of your control. But these feelings are less important than the loving ...

Without doubt, parent-less Plato met Socrates at an impressionable age. The execution of the man who taught Plato philosophy also served as a life-long example of the need to be circumspect, to avoid ...

In the complex and often violent political arena of ancient Greece, ideals of civic engagement and self-determination mingled ...

Italian researchers have uncovered new details about the life and final moments of the ancient Greek philosopher, Plato. Utilizing artificial intelligence alongside optical coherence tomography ...

Is privacy inherently valuable, or just one more variable in a society’s blueprint? The philosophers’ view, from Plato on ...

The Republic, the best-known work of ancient Greek philosopher Plato, authored around 375 BC, has shaped western political thought. Greece is now known as the “cradle of democracy”.

The Greek philosopher Plato thought similarly that it was right for the 'better' to rule over the 'inferior'. ...nature herself intimates that it is just for the better to have more than the worse ...

And could it hold the key to understanding why, across the West, confidence in democracy is declining? The arguments Plato makes against democracy in The Republic are spoken by the philosopher ...

Professor Afisi has authored and co-authored over 60 scientific papers and journal articles, including over 20 chapters in books.