We are all fond of metaphors, or similes — be it life, career, or any conversation. For most of us, the metaphor of gadgets, not their inner working, is imperative, also important.
Souls: It’s Time We Give Up the Ghost
The idea that we are animated by an immaterial soul that outlasts our body is an ancient one. Plato wrote that the soul is a nonphysical entity giving rise to our intangible abilities, such as ...
The Turkish State of Mind
Indeed, in his respect for literary education he came nearer to the liberalized version of the Spartan system which was conceived by Plato ... in his otherwise self-contained mode of existence ...
The Government of Posterity
Plato did persuade the tyrant of Syracuse to let ... from a tradition that they had inherited. Thus, in the older conception of the state, the validity of power was based upon possession.
Minerva's Owl: The Tradition of Western Political Thought
These sorts of issues did not perplex Plato or Aristotle, since they conceived of politics as having its own moral ... watchmaker and of a mother who died in childbirth, Rousseau was a self-made and ...
Why we need the classics — and must strive to teach them
Ancient greek philosopher Plato ... come from? Did Shakespeare stumble on Hamlet because he had made Richard II into an actor-prince, a drama queen shattering the mirror of a self he could ...
Pride Week: Make cyberpunk queer (again) - a cyborg manifesto
Hello! Once again Eurogamer is marking Pride Month - on this, its 50th anniversary year - with a week of features ...
