What is a traditional liberal education, and what are the arguments for it in the twenty-first century? This collection of essays by Anthony O'Hear sets out an alternative educational philosophy to the prevailing progressivist thinking on these issue...

"I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing". "The Republic", a pioneering work of political philosophy, is a dialogue that does not feature Plato directly as at the heart is Socrates – his teacher. Even though...