Plato on Leadership

Plato and Innatism

The history of management: a global perspective

Introduction One of the keys to successful management is the ability to understand and apply modern management principles and techniques effectively. Managers must develop an in-depth knowledge of past and present models, theories and processes in order to manage effectively and intelligently. Contemporary management practice is pervasive in every aspect of human life within all types of organi...

Plato in Farabi's Office: Search for the Roots of Medical Law in Two Ideal Societies

From Plato to Farabi, and even to this day, man has been searching for earthly paradise. Both philosophers sought utopia. It seems that the disagreement of thinkers and purgatory with the seemingly incompatible ideal of the mental ideal and the objective gloomy reality has made it impossible for human beings to easily achieve the ideal utopia. Clarifying the differences between thinkers and the...

Leader character, ethos, and virtue: Individual and collective considerations

Available online 19 August 2011 We advance the discussion that each leader has a moral component that can be defined as character that is distinct from values, personality, and other similar constructs. We seek to clarify what underpins forms of character-based leadership and exemplary leader behaviors. We build out our previous discussion (Hannah & Avolio, this issue) that the locus of charact...

The Objective Source of Moral Values from the Standpoints of Plato and Ibn ‘Arabī on the Basis of Doctrines of Ideas and Immutable Entities

Belief in eternality of the source of moral values has a great influence on people’s way of thinking and their lifestyles. This research analytically and explanatorily compares the views of two leading thinkers in the Islamic and Western worlds: Plato and Ibn ‘Arabī. While according to Plato’s theory of “Ideas”, all phenomena including moral values such as brevity and justice have examples, ide...