Ruling is a skilled trade, Plato argues. And like any other trade, not everyone has the talent or the training to be good at ...

Opinion: Churches and their strident faiths have been perhaps the most guilty of upsetting democracy by installing chaos and ...

For as long as we’ve had democracies, majority rule has left some in the minority worse off. We need to be talking about what ...

Socrates compares putting low-information voters in charge of a democracy to giving them control of a trireme sailing to Samos in a storm. Robin Reames’s “The Ancient Art of Thinking for ...

While liberal democracy emphasizes individual rights, adversarial politics and universalist principles, India’s philosophical ...

View our world through the eyes of the Ancient Greeks and Romans, inventors of theater, democracy, Civil law, and straight roads! UD’s Ancient Greek and Roman Studies program allows students to ...

First off the Greeks gave the world democracy – which we still use in Britain today to choose who runs the country. In ancient Athens, citizens met regularly to vote on the laws that changed ...

Ancient Greece, renowned for its contributions to democracy and philosophy, also holds the unfortunate distinction of ...

The Republic, the best-known work of ancient Greek philosopher Plato, authored around 375 BC, has shaped western political thought. Greece is now known as the “cradle of democracy”.

We might preserve democracy by nurturing the political skills of everyone, to make the best use of their talents and experiences This might be surprising, given that Westerners typically think that it ...