Plato never wrote "The Republic." Ancient editors added a subtitle clarifying the work's true focus: individual psychology ...

Plato made three doomed trips trying to reform a tyrant. His ancient mistake mirrors a modern trap: believing we can change ...

An ancient Greek philosopher of the Classical period, Plato is considered a fundamental piece of the Western philosophy puzzle. A student of Socrates and a teacher of Aristotle, Plato's thinking ...

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 ...

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The notion that philosophy begins in wonder is as old as Socrates. In his dialogue “Theaetetus,” Plato quotes him as saying that “the sense of wonder is the mark of the philosopher” and that in fact, ...

The Greek philosopher Plato was a student of Socrates and a teacher of Aristotle. Leonidas Drosis via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED Thanks to an ancient text and specialized scanning technology ...

EASTON — Forrest Hansen will use the round table approach to examining and discussing selections from one of Plato’s most well-known dialogues, “Symposium,” sometimes titled “The Drinking Party,” in a ...