The Republic, the best-known work of ancient Greek philosopher Plato on democracy, authored around 375 BC, has shaped Western ...

The concept is Plato’s and was further developed by his student Aristotle. Chan, born in 1973 in Hong Kong, lives and works in New York. This is the best way of life—to live and die in the pursuit of ...

Then Plato argues for a dichotomy between a market economy, where the general public are free to work, trade, own private property and raise families, and an authoritarian government controlled by a ...