The dialogues of Plato's The Republic are regarded as the first great texts on political and moral theory. Philosopher Simon Blackburn has written... Plato's 'Republic' Still Influential, Author Says ...

It is a secret fantasy of countless philosophy graduates to rewrite Plato’s masterpiece, The Republic, for a modern audience. For his first movie, playwright Conor McPherson got to the third word of ...

"It was kind of a primitive internet," Dear said, explaining that a lot of the PLATO systems were interconnected. You could send messages, and message forums were connected, and you could read about ...

In terms of philosophical bombshells, it can’t compare with Nietzsche’s declaration that “God is dead.” But the Great Books Foundation, the literary institution founded in 1947 by the leading ...

Socrates’ method was to clear his students’ minds of abstractions and assumptions, so that they might attain self-knowledge and learn the practical wisdom of living well. His pupil Plato, however, ...

Plato (428/427–348/347 BCE) was a Greek philosopher and mathematician of the Classic Age who founded the Academy of Athens. Noted as a student of Socrates, Plato has distinguished himself as one of ...

As atheists debate the merits of philosophy, 'Plato at the Googleplex' author Rebecca Goldstein tells RNS that philosophy isn’t in competition with science and explains why atheists shouldn’t dismiss ...