The Reading Room
On The Republic
Every argument about who should govern is, in some sense, still arguing with Plato. The Republic is where the conversation starts, and the unsettling thing about reading it now is...
On The Republic
Every argument about who should govern is, in some sense, still arguing with Plato. The Republic is where the conversation starts, and the unsettling thing about reading it now is...
On Politics
Where Plato imagined the ideal state, Aristotle went out and counted the real ones.
On Politics
Where Plato imagined the ideal state, Aristotle went out and counted the real ones.
Reading On the Commonwealth
The word republic comes to us from Cicero, from his res publica, the public thing, the matter held in common.
Reading On the Commonwealth
The word republic comes to us from Cicero, from his res publica, the public thing, the matter held in common.
On The Prince
The Prince is the most slandered book in political thought, and also one of the most clear-eyed.
On The Prince
The Prince is the most slandered book in political thought, and also one of the most clear-eyed.
On Leviathan
Hobbes wrote Leviathan out of fear, and he was honest about it. England was tearing itself apart in civil war when he set down his great argument, and the horror...
On Leviathan
Hobbes wrote Leviathan out of fear, and he was honest about it. England was tearing itself apart in civil war when he set down his great argument, and the horror...