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 ...

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 ...

One, Ethan Mills, discussed a famous dialogue in Plato's "Republic" – among the most influential works of philosophy ever produced – which describes a theory of how democracy devolves into ...

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 ...

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.

From these beginnings, Plato gradually developed distinct philosophical ideas, such as his Theory of Forms, which features in middle dialogues such as the Phaedo, Symposium, and Republic.

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 ...