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 ...

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

Following the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC, an outbreak of anti-Macedonian feeling swept Athens, forcing Aristotle ...

The Academy became the model for what a real university should be: a place of honest inquiry, moral formation, and resistance to every ideology, as thinkers from antiquity to Newman have affirmed.

Specifically, physicists and philosophers tend to conflate what it means for something to exist and what it means for ...

History often provides perfect metaphors for our personal struggles. Few historical episodes offer more relationship wisdom than Plato's three ill-fated journeys to Sicily in the 4th century BCE.

Adrian Bardon does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

One of the most critically acclaimed playwrights of our age, Tom Stoppard, has died at 88. He assumed his audience was as ...

Sophists in ancient Greece were professional educators and intellectuals. Their teachings emphasized public speaking and ...

The nature of time has plagued thinkers for as long as we've tried to understand the world we live in. Intuitively, we know what time is, but try to explain it, and we end up tying our minds in knots.

Philosophy is the quiet engine behind everything we think, question, and imagine. From Athens to Kyoto, from Königsberg to Calcutta, the world’s greatest thinkers have tried to make sense of existence ...

Plato used Atlantis as a foil to praise ancient Athens, showing that moral integrity trumps military might and wealth. The story was essentially a thought experiment about political philosophy and ...