These ten books offer deep insights into human nature, morals, and life. Reading them will not only improve your ...

Socrates, the Cynics and Plato's Academy, yet the core beliefs are just as fresh and valid as they were over 2000 years ago.

According to Plato, justice is a human virtue. This virtue makes an individual “self-consistent and good” while also promoting harmony in society overall. The Republic associates justice at the level ...

For over 2,000 years, ever since Plato wrote “The Republic”, temperance was considered one of four cardinal virtues. The others are wisdom, courage and justice. We still talk about those three ...

With my students in UVU’s new master’s degree in Constitutional Government, Civics, and Law, I have recently been reviewing the themes of natural rights and civic virtues as we read selections from ...

Focus on what you can control and accept what you cannot. Cultivate virtue and seek the “golden mean” (balance) in all things.

It reflects his belief that true resilience and virtue stem from the soul rather than external possessions. The relationship between Socrates and Alcibiades extended beyond the battlefield. Plato’s ...

FROM AN unlikely place — the upper reaches of the technology industry — comes an unexpected summons to an invigorated patriotism. The summons will discomfit progressives by requiring ...

As a contemporary of Socratic thought, Laches is often referenced in philosophical dialogues for his insights on courage and virtue, most notably in Plato’s dialogue Laches, where his perspectives on ...