What If Plato Had Lived in the Time of the Prophet Mohammed pbuh?
A Journey from Imagined Justice to lived Reality. By Tajjamul Aly Plato, the father of political philosophy, was born in Athens more than 900 years before the Prophet of Islam (PBUH). He lived in a time when Athens was going through deep moral and political decay. The defeat of Athens in the Peloponnesian War against Sparta and the unjust execution of his teacher, Socrates by Athenian democracy had a deep impact on Plato's mind. Plato was disappointed by what was happening in his city. Athens had become a place of problems and injustice. The unfair execution of his beloved teacher was the turning point when he began to reflect deeply. He couldn't understand how a man who stood for truth , wisdom and moral courage would be condemned by the very society he tried to improve. This led him to start asking some critical questions: what is justice? What makes a good government? Who should rule society? What kind of society would be truly fair? He didn’t just sit quietly, he b...