Quote of the day by Plato: “The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to....” Ancient Greek philosopher issued a timeless warning about leadership, political ...

More than 2,300 years after Plato wrote his famous quote on leadership and power, the words still dominate modern debates on ...
Opinion

Plato’s warning should resonate in India

As an observer of electoral politics in West Bengal - and increasingly of democratic life across India - one is compelled to confront an uncomfortable truth: Indian democracy, though vigorous in ...
Psychology Today

How (and hardly a word on why) to learn the ethical views of Aristotle and Plato

A prominent writer and opinion-maker told the following anecdote in a recent talk. He had ordered some take-out food, and the man delivering it saw books by Plato and Aristotle on his shelves and said ...

Quote of the day by Plato: “We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”

Some quotations survive centuries because they still describe human behaviour with surprising accuracy. Even in a world of ...