In any Greek city, there are perhaps no more than fifty good draught-players, and certainly not as many kings. –Plato, Statesman In one of Plato’s books, the philosopher Protagoras tells a genesis ...

Following the death of his guru Socrates, it is said that Plato asked a value-laden question: ‘how are we to live?’ This question became central to all his writings after the cruel death of his ...

In Plato’s cave, humans watch silhouettes flicker on the wall, unaware that fires just behind them are distorting reality into a shadow world – not unlike the world we find ourselves in today, aided ...