In Plato's "Republic" (V), Socrates tells Glaucon that anyone "can feel both secure and confident when one has the truth about the dearest and most important things and speaks about them among those who...
Plato was 40 years old (388 B.C.), as he tells us in his "Seventh Letter." The Peloponnesian War had ended in 404. The Greek colony of Syracuse on Sicily was in the ascendancy. Along with Sparta, Syracuse...
