Plato’s well known skepticism of democracy seems the result of his fear of what happens when you put things to a vote. That’s how Socrates died — voted into a death sentence when his case was ...

And Plato is a kind of inspiration, has been an inspiration, for many theologically minded philosophers -- people who don't keep their feet on the ground -- who take pride in voyaging into the ...

If Parliamentary questions are to be studied, hundreds of centuries later, the old Greek philosopher would have proven ...

TMC's Derek O'Brien claims the government prioritized noise over substance during Parliament's Monsoon session. Citing ...

Perhaps I am being unfair by measuring Messrs. Biden and Trump against Plato’s philosopher kings. Even Plato realized that he was creating an alternate reality to what Athenian democracy had become.

Notably, Plato is not defining an aristocracy as wealthy elites as it is commonly referred to today. Instead, he is talking about ‘philosopher kings’ and ‘philosophy queens.’ ...

For Plato, to avoid this unhappy end, we need benevolent, virtuous rulers who are ruled by reason rather than their irrational desires. In other words, we need philosopher-kings.

The Union government deployed every device to “make the most sound” during the recently concluded Monsoon session of Parliament but lacked substance, Trinamool Congress (TMC) Rajya Sabha leader Derek ...