In her review of “Plato Goes to China” by Shadi Bartsch (Bookshelf, Feb. 27), Martha Bayles rightly defends Leo Strauss against the charge that the professor was an antidemocrat who would have favored ...

How would you define democracy? The word democracy comes from the Greek words “demos,” meaning people, and “katos,” meaning power. So democracy can be thought of as the “power of the people,” a way of ...

Plato never wrote a dialogue called "The Republic." He wrote the Politeia (Πολιτεία), which translates to "constitution." But here's what few people know: ancient editors felt this title alone was ...

If you knew you could commit any crime and never get caught, would you still choose a righteous life? Does acting justly lead to greater happiness than injustice? These are the questions that launch ...

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Jo Walton's The Just City, which came out in January and which I utterly adored, ends on a wicked cliff-hanger: The real-world version of Plato's Republic that scholars and philosophers from different ...

See his general account of "Plato," in Leo Strauss and Joseph Cropsey, History of Political Philosophy (3rd edition), 33-89, and his particular arguments as to the "Republic," in The City and Man (pp.

Since Donald J. Trump first came onto the political scene, I have thought a lot about the philosopher-kings of Plato’s Republic. In a climate of norm-breaking politicians, increasing polarization and ...