Plato's Academy was founded by the Greek philosopher himself in 428/427 BC in Athens, and is considered to be the world's ...

Sometimes, even the newest ideas have ancient roots. Take, for example, neoconservatism, the radical philosophy that supposedly guided the Bush administration’s ill-fated foreign policy decisions. Who ...

Strictly speaking, there can be no biography of Plato — only what Carol Atack calls a “biographical tradition.” Exactly when he was born, exactly where he traveled, and to what extent his famous ...

One of my less than admirable traits is to attempt to categorize and organize everything into its simplest terms. All too often, simple devolves to simplistic as I keep trying to pound an unwilling ...

Diogenes of Sinope, a beggar who lived on the streets of Athens in the fourth century B.C.E., has been hailed as the progenitor of performance art, an inspiration for the Occupy movement, and, by the ...

Plato's claim in the Republic that in the ideal city philosophers would be compelled to rule has led some students of his work to think that he was either incompetent or insincere. Professor Harman ...

Plato was a Greek philosopher who came up with a lot of interesting ways to view the world. Many people have different ways of viewing the world, and that is wonderful for keeping the world anything ...