This part of Plato’s philosophy is perhaps the most well-known of his many contributions to ancient Greek thought. Not only did it become the foundation for his political theory, but it even became a kind of paradigm for the Western view of reality as a whole. Here, in Book Seven of his Republic, Plato offers…

This may be a funny way to put it, but there was a great deal of racism in New Testament times. The most obvious is the racism of Jewish people against the people of Samaria. The Samaritans had originally been part of the Jewish nation, but when most of the latter were transported to Babylon…