More or Less: Utopia as a Meditation on Human Nature
Introduction Even a perfunctory read of Utopia is likely to give one pause. Included in More’s “truly golden handbook” are incongruities too glaring to escape notice—incongruities between…
Introduction Even a perfunctory read of Utopia is likely to give one pause. Included in More’s “truly golden handbook” are incongruities too glaring to escape notice—incongruities between…
Perhaps the best measure of the richness and complexity of Plato’s Republic, the most influential work of political philosophy in the Western tradition, is the remarkably broad…
At least since the time of the ancient philosopher Plato, private property rights have posed challenges to those aspiring to craft a just political society. During the…
Plato gives an account in the ninth book of the Republic of how a tyrannical soul is formed. Socrates pauses and notes that, in order to proceed…
Given the fantastic premise of this myth, we are able to construct a thought experiment to test out the virtue of the two types of human beings:…
What did Plato actually teach in the Republic about the so-called “noble lie?” For convenience, I shall refer to it by designating it as “The Plato Doctrine.”…
Socrates describes the “Ideal City” early in Bk. II of the Republic. Glaucon is not satisfied with the constitution. He says that “you make the people feast…
Analysis of Book One Scene: 1990s American college core curriculum class in philosophy. Players: Professor and students Professor: Today I would like us to analyze the first…
The Usefulness of Plato’s Republic to the Philosopher The topic of this essay is the practical application of reading Plato's Republic in the life and work of…
Another way to teach students to think critically is to have them do a lot of writing. Three professors from BYU, who have team-taught a writing and…
The obligation to teach students how to think effectively has been an important educational objective for several decades. "One of the teacher's greatest responsibilities is to cultivate…
The Issue of Multiculturalism Plato's Republic is under fire right now. Stanford University's core curriculum students are no longer required to read Plato's Republic because it represents…
I In the Republic, Socrates holds that there are correlations among the poetic rhythms and the constitutions of state and soul. He does not explicitly tell us…
Plato’s Republic stands in contradistinction to Aristotle’s Politics, indeed, it stands in contradistinction to almost all other works of political philosophy because Plato never speaks in the…
I In the Republic, Socrates names the musical modes and he correlates them with the different constitutions of state and soul (399a–c).[1] Since Socrates ranks the different…