Announcing Our Keynote Speaker

How Can We Save Rational Discourse: Philosophy & Politics

Plato's Academy Centre is honored to announce the keynote speaker for our March 11th event, How Can We Save Rational Discourse: Philosophy & Politics…

Lord Owen is a doctor by training and was neurology and psychiatric registrar at St Thomas’s Hospital, London. He then entered politics and in Labour Governments served as Navy Minister, Health Minister and Foreign Secretary. He co-founded the Social Democratic Party and was its leader from 1983-1987 and 1988-1990.  From 1992-1995 he served as EU peace negotiator in the former Yugoslavia. He now sits as an independent social democrat in the House of Lords. He fully retired from business in 2015 having having had interests in America, Russia and the UK.

Lord Owen has long been interested in the inter-relationship between politics and medicine and has written extensively on the subject including In Sickness and In Power: Illness in Heads of Government, military and business since 1900 (revised 2016) and The Hubris Syndrome: Bush, Blair and the Intoxication of Power (2008).  He served as  Chairman of the Daedalus Trust charity from 2011-2017, which promoted multidisciplinary research into personality changes associated with the exercise of power in all walks of life.

His latest book, Riddle, Mystery and Enigma. Two Hundred Years of British-Russian Relations, was published in 2021. A Greek version was also published that year. 

Join us as modern day academics and authors share insights into how we can restore civility in our political exchanges on March 11th! You reserve your spot now at platosacademy.org.