To register your interest please contact collegesales@cambridge.org providing details of the course you are teaching. Plato's Republic is a central text in the Western philosophical tradition and also ...

Beauty, truth and justice are at the heart of a functioning, healthy metropolis – three Platonic values our governments and developers too often choose to ignore.

Where Socrates emphasized individual people examining their lives and actions, Plato broadened his intellectual inquiries to include institutions and social organizations. His book The Republic is ...

Let’s go back to Plato and his cave. Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave,” from the Republic, helps us understand populism in the U.S. today and its role in Donald Trump’s rise. The ...

and the so-called myth of the Noble Lie from the Republic. The mythical character of the Timaeus cosmology is also amply discussed. The volume also contains seventeen rare Renaissance illustrations of ...