Tag: Plato

Among the legion of unjustly forgotten historical figures there’s an eccentric soldier and failed composer named Captain Tobias Hume.  Unless you play the...

In “Lying,” the late Richard Wilbur diagnoses one of our age’s endemic ills with the paradoxical phrase “fierce velleity.” For those of...

Jordan Wales has recently gifted the conservative movement a sober and justly-timed critique of Richard Spencer and the alt-right. Unfortunately, much of the analysis...

“Then education is the craft concerned with doing this very thing, this turning around, and with how the soul can most easily and effectively...

“Then shall we carelessly allow the children to hear any old stories…?” Plato, Republic Summer is a time for stories. There is a great tradition of...

What can Plato teach us about and in the modern multiversity?

“It’s no easy task—indeed it’s very difficult—to realize that in every soul there is an instrument that is purified and rekindled by such subjects...

“Imitations practiced from youth become part of nature and settle into habits of gesture, voice, and thought.” Plato, Republic III Plato showed great concern about...

“It is the greatest good for a man to discuss virtue every day and those other things about which you hear me conversing and...

“But when children play the right games from the beginning and absorb lawfulness from music and poetry, it follows them in everything and fosters...