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Platos Republic

The Trouble with Oligarchy: Plato's Surprising Perspective

Marilyn Wedge, Ph.D. | Posted 11.21.2012 | Politics
Read More: Elections 2012, Politics, Democracy, Oligarchy, Plato's Republic, Bill Moyers, Politics News
Marilyn Wedge, Ph.D.

There is little doubt that the Republicans--and especially their leader--have become the party of oligarchy. Why more Americans do not seem to notice this fact seems to indicate their disengagement from politics and a misunderstanding about exactly what they are voting for.

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Reading Plato With Columbia Students

Megan Doherty | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Read More: Great Books, Core-Curriculum, Socrates, Plato, Columbia University, Meritocracy, Dead White Men, Plato's Republic, New York News
Megan Doherty

I faced my first Core Curriculum class at Columbia last week armed with the names of my 20 students and a heavily annotated copy of Plato's Republic.

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Danger! Empathy and Psychopathy as Competing Value Systems in Politics and Economics

Marcella Mroczkowski | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: Adam Smith, Empathy, Economics, Civil Rights, Demagogue, Psychology, United States Constitution, Evolutionary Biology, Federalist Papers, Compassion, Plato's Republic, The Wealth of Nations, Psychopaths, Malignant Narcissists, Neuroscience, Human Rights, Pathological Narcissism, Ayn Rand, American History, Racism, Sociopaths, Objectivism, Business News
Marcella Mroczkowski

Four to five percent of the population is born without a capacity for empathy. It is a neurological lack. A psychopath may be a genius and become a multimillionaire, but he will never be able to understand empathetic values.

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