Imagine you are inside a cave, chained with others and facing a blank wall. All you can see are shadows cast against the wall from the light outside. Plato tells this story in “The Republic ...
For Plato the changing world was really just an illusion that hid a higher reality of unchanging ideas. In order to explain this view he wrote the parable of the cave. In it men sit around a fire ...
In the arena of ideas, a most intriguing dynamic plays out . Truth, often maligned and misrepresented, possesses an uncanny ability to ambush even the most cleverly crafted falsehoods .
Both Plato's Allegory of the Cave and Shvetaketu's story highlight the need to look beyond intellectual understanding to grasp reality. True wisdom comes from calming the mind and being open to the ...
Plato is a philosophical writer of unusual and ingenious versatility. His works engage in argument but are also full of allegory, imagery, myth, paradox and intertextuality. He astutely characterises ...
Price gouging is a practice that extends all the way back to Antiquity. The ancient Greek philosopher Plato prohibited craftsmen from “setting a greater price” than the actual value of a good ...