The Stoic dichotomy treats betrayal like weather. Plato knew better: another person's choices flow from character—and ...

Prologue I learned a few things about Plato in high school and in my university classes on ancient and medieval Greek history. I improved that meager ...

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 ...

Katie has a PhD in maths, specializing in the intersection of dynamical systems and number theory. She reports on topics from maths and history to society and animals. Katie has a PhD in maths, ...

The Academy became the model for what a real university should be: a place of honest inquiry, moral formation, and resistance ...

The series is now in production and set to air on BBC iPlayer and BBC One. It stars BAFTA nominated Josh Finan as Dan the ...

Plato and Aristotle in discussion, 1437, by Luca della Robbia (ca 1400-1482), marble tile, depicts two of the greatest philosophers, who wrote two of the all-time best philosophy books. Philosophy ...