Republic, Volume II: Books 6–10 Robert Powell Setting aside the familiar narrative

Setting aside the familiar narrative themes

but all that remains now are layers of dust and perhaps a few field mice scurrying around to break up the silence

the thought processes behind Cohen and his music (I've always admired the people who could write great songs in the back of taxicabs like Hank Williams

made with mushroom broth

We arrive to wreckage--a restaurant smashed to rubble

Republic, Volume II: Books 6–10 Robert Powell Setting aside the familiar narrativeThe Platonic ideal of government. Plato of Athens, who laid the foundations of the Western philosophical tradition and in range and depth ranks among its greatest practitioners, was born to a prosperous and politically active family ca. 427 BC. In early life an admirer of Socrates, Plato later founded the first institution of higher learning in the West, the Academy, among whose many notable alumni was Aristotle. Traditionally ascribed to Plato are