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Opinion: Plato’s advice to discontented workers: At least be virtuous
Financial Post via Yahoo Finance· 1 year agoBy Neil Seeman Ours is the era of job discontent. Amid an historic labour shortage and impending...
Will a wise captain come to navigate our ship, or do mutineers always get us lost at sea?
The Herald-Mail via Yahoo News· 12 months agoHow would you define democracy? The word democracy comes from the Greek words “demos,” meaning...
Find out what bacon has to do with propaganda at the next Country Day Faculty Exploration
Savannah Morning News via Yahoo News· 4 months agoIf bacon often sizzles aside your eggs, you may want to attend Savannah Country Day School’s (SCDS)...
‘The Ancient Art of Thinking for Yourself’ Review: Dialogues for Democracy
The Wall Street Journal· 1 month agoBOOKSHELF In Plato’s “Gorgias” (ca. 380 B.C.), Callicles, a young Sophist, predicts that if Socrates...
Why do we do things that are bad for us? The ancient philosophers had an answer
The Guardian via Yahoo News· 2 months ago‘What happens when we clearly do something stupid?’ asks Sarah Paul, a professor of philosophy at...
The Observer: The real, the unreal and the surreal
Portsmouth Herald via Yahoo News· 11 months agoThe classical Greek philosopher, Plato, lived and died in the 4th century BC, but people today are still influenced by his thinking on everything from...
Aug. 17 is National Thrift Shop Day. Check out these 10 Milwaukee-area thrift stores
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel via Yahoo News· 9 months agoOn social media, college campuses and in high school hallways, "thrifted" outfits have skyrocketed...
The internet affords us anonymity. Why this isn't good for civility.
The Oklahoman via Yahoo News· 2 years agoPlato tells a story in the Republic about the “ring of Gyges.” Gyges was a shepherd who found a ring...
Individuals and societies can live and learn from mistakes | Opinion
Knox News | The Knoxville News-Sentinel via Yahoo News· 10 months agoAnd the seasons they go round and round / And the painted ponies go up and downWe're captive on the...
Opinion: Arm our children with weapons of mass creation, not destruction
Cincinnati.com | The Enquirer via Yahoo News· 2 years agoA little over two weeks before a teenager entered an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, and shot 19...