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

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Like Plato before him, who briefly taught Dionysis II of Sicily, Aristotle tutored Alexander the Great in the hope he could turn him into a philosopher-king. Neither succeeded. Aristotle died in ...

With such a broad range of writings on numerous subjects, it is sometimes said that all western philosophy 'but a footnote' to Plato. He died in 347 BC.

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Barrow, Robin (2012). Happiness, Radical Education, Common Sense and the Curriculum, Moral Philosophy for Education, & Plato and Education. London and New York: Routledge Library Editions. Barrow, ...