One of the most insightful perspectives on love is by Ancient Greek philosopher Plato in Symposium, describing its force as a ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 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 ...