Plato's own pupil, Aristotle, was born in 384 BC and began as an ardent supporter of his teacher. However, gradually he modified his teacher's views and turned away from the world of ideas back to ...

In the complex and often violent political arena of ancient Greece, ideals of civic engagement and self-determination mingled ...

With her broad and bedazzled smile, courtesy of her braces, and a shiny sequined headband, Morgan Lemner looks just like any other middle-school student. At first glance, there’s no way ...

But which book? After Socrates' death, two of his students took divergent paths. Plato and Aristotle disagreed about ethics, the former believing in eternal values and the latter in the need for ...

The toolkit dismisses the study of classical Greek thinkers Aristotle, Plato and Socrates as 'armchair theorising'. It is the first official guidance produced by SOAS academics aimed at ...

Ruling is a skilled trade, Plato argues. And like any other trade, not everyone has the talent or the training to be good at ...

It shows some of the most accomplished and iconic philosophers and thinkers of the era, Plato, Aristotle, Socrates, and Pythagoras, and even has Raphael in the background. The painting looks like ...

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Plato's accounts of the last days of Socrates in which he kept doing philosophy right up to the point of his execution by hemlock. Show more Melvyn Bragg and guests ...