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The Philosophers' Magazine Debra Nails says that literary success eclipses Plato The Philosopher King … the Academy … Atlantis … Plato’s Cave … Platonic Love … music of the spheres … the Socratic method … the Ladder of Love … Platonic Forms … Beauty is truth, truth beauty … Platonic Solids … Platonic dialectic … the Third Man … academic freedom … Plato’s Beard … footnotes to Plato … Get your vaccinations. When you read about Plato’s teacher and his pupils, immunise yourself against au...

Film Review: Philosopher King: Lee Teng-hui’s Dialogue This bizarre ‘documentary’ featuring a fictitious Lee Teng-hui conversing with a suicidal Japanese schoolgirl presents a grossly biased, Japan-centric view of Taiwanese history that overshadows the former president’s inspiring message By Han Cheung / Staff reporter This reviewer almost walked out of the theater in disgust after Philosopher King: Lee Teng-hui’s Dialogue spent the first 40 minutes glorifying Japanese colonial rule. It’s beyond tacky to use an imaginary late president Lee Teng-hui (李登輝) to tell a cynical,...

Anti-government and anti-Pashinyan protests in Yerevan, December 10th 2020. Photo: Cornelius_brandt / Shutterstock If we follow Plato’s understanding of regime transitions, it appears that Armenia can soon become a ‘tyranny’. This issue can be traced back to the beginning of the ‘Karabakh’ movement and the desire for independence from the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union was a classic example of a totalitarian regime. It possessed a centralised government that faced little to no opposition, as well as an (at least publicly) obedient citizenry. In relation to Plato’s description of ...

Please note that the posts on The Blogs are contributed by third parties. The opinions, facts and any media content in them are presented solely by the authors, and neither The Times of Israel nor its partners assume any responsibility for them. Please contact us in case of abuse. In case of abuse, "An Audience in Athens During Agamemnon by Aeschylus" by William Blake Richmond (1842-1921); oil on canvas; 1884; (Wikimedia Commons) The source of Greek or Western morality is fifth century tragedy; or so historians of ethics have long argued. Yet, Socrates (Σωκράτης) would be appalle...