Was Plato a leftist?

Leftist” is a modern term referring to broadly being on the side of the oppressed in their struggles against oppression. That is not Pkato's view in, e.g. read more

Black horse = desiring nature = left; White horse = ambitious, honnor-seeking nature = right; Driver = rational nature, which seeks to harmonize the two horses; Some interpret the Republic to mean Plato was on the extreme right, politically. read more

Plato died in Athens, and was probably buried on the Academy grounds. Plato’s Dialogues With the exception of a set of letters of dubious provenance, all of Plato’s surviving writings are in dialogue form, with the character of Socrates appearing in all but one of them. read more

Plato (/ ˈ p l eɪ t oʊ /; Greek: Πλάτων Plátōn, pronounced [plá.tɔːn] in Classical Attic; 428/427 or 424/423 – 348/347 BC) was a philosopher in Classical Greece and the founder of the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world. read more