In the complex and often violent political arena of ancient Greece, ideals of civic engagement and self-determination mingled ...

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

As Ms. Herring shows in her lucid and moving biography, Bergson was a revolutionary thinker who stood Plato on his head. The Platonic idea of universal forms, by which the material changing world ...