Diotima, the female philosopher in Plato's Symposium, has puzzled historians for centuries with her theory of love and beauty ...

Like Plato before him, who briefly taught Dionysis II of Sicily, Aristotle tutored Alexander the Great in the hope he could turn him into a philosopher-king. Neither succeeded. Aristotle died in ...

Someone must first escape the cave’s illusions, confront the true nature of reality, and return to enlighten the community ...

As a philosophy teacher to grade-school students, Jana Mohr Lone is no stranger to getting her mind blown. For the last 20 years or so, Mohr Lone has been the president of PLATO, a nonprofit ...

Actually, Netanyahu would do well to read Plato, to learn about democracy and the rule of law, and to stand trial and accept ...

Volume 7 of «Multimedia Encyclopaedia of the Philosophical Sciences: Greek Philosophy» (MEPS), an encyclopaedia created by RAI Radiotelevisione Italiana, with the patronage of UNESCO. The ...

A science historian at The University of Manchester has cracked “The Plato Code” – the long disputed secret messages hidden in the great philosopher’s writings. Plato was the Einstein of Greece’s ...

The End tells the story of a wealthy family who survived the collapse of the climate and civilisation in a bunker inside an abandoned mine.