Do you spend your life focused on metaphysical concepts like Plato, or are you more focused on the world around you like Aristotle?

In my roughly 10 years of philosophical education — four in college, one in a master’s program and five as a PhD candidate — it never occurred to me that Plato was a person. Of course, I read and ...

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 ...

How can you teach a philosophy class without mentioning Plato? Texas A&M University professor Martin Peterson is trying to figure that out. Plato was a father of Western philosophy, famously a student ...

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One of history's most influential philosophers, Plato was known for his theories on politics, poetry, knowledge and ethics. And, thanks to a newly discovered scroll buried by Mount Vesuvius, we now ...