Plato’s Republic teaches us that education of the young is not only about the mind; it needs also to be about the body as well. Modern society tends to dismiss much of Plato’s advice on education, asserting that such advice was needed for the world of Greek warring cities, not for large commercial nation-states.
The contemporary debate about what works should and should not be included But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists; and calculators has succeeded, and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever. Edmund Burke's Reflection on the Revolution in France. Western literature's canon is very heated. In the debate, …
Aristotle does not invent the concept of the politeia, it was a concept commonly used by Greek political thinkers to refer to the form or types of political rule a polis had governing it.
