The Republic (c. 375 BCE), featuring Plato’s teacher Socrates in dialogue with several friends, is unquestionably central to ...

I watched the lecture presentation, “Masters of Greek Thought: Plato, Socrates, and Aristotle” (The Great Courses) by Professor Robert C Bartlett. When Professor Bartlett was discussing Aristotle, I r ...

So a public school system is inherently a trade-off, where many students are taught by one teacher. It’s just the nature of it. A whip-smart kid is probably held back because the teacher teaches to ...

So a public school system is inherently a trade-off, where many students are taught by one teacher. It’s just the nature of it. A whip-smart kid is probably held back because the teacher teaches to ...

How the ideas circulating among one noblewoman’s coterie in 16th-century Dubrovnik anticipated modern feminist thought ...

Why? Why can’t we accept the evidence of this beautiful world that at this moment surrounds us? So what if it changes or ends ...

Plato’s path to philosophy and his life prior to Sicily Before beginning his philosophical journey, Plato was first an artist and poet. He composed tragic and dithyrambic poems, along with other ...

An elderly Plato stands on the left, pointing his finger to the sky. Beside him is his student, Aristotle. In a display of superb foreshortening, Aristotle reaches his right arm directly out toward ...

Texts and focus may vary, but important names will be Heraclitus, Parmenides, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Hellenistic philosophers, Neo-Platonists, Augustine, Boethius, Thomas Aquinas, Ockham, ...