Born in 427 BC, Plato fled Athens in 399 BC after Socrates was executed, blaming democracy and the Peloponnesian War for his teacher's death. An aristocrat and an elitist, much of what we know ...

Philosophers are constitutively irritating: this is both their great power and their greatest weakness. Imagine the kind of ...

Friedrich Nietzsche drew no distinction between Socrates and Plato in his diagnosis of the origin of philosophy and metaphysics. My argument will lean heavily on the scholarship of Gregory Vlastos to ...

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 ...

Why did Socrates go to his death so peacefully? Why were the charges against him so vague? Why do we have only Socrates’s defense of himself in Plato’s words, and no record at all of what the ...

In a new book, Agnes Callard shows how the Socratic Method can be used to examine fundamental life issues. Socrates claimed ...

The team has already read one of the scrolls to discover how Greek philosopher Plato spent his last evening 2,500 years ago - ...

A key figure in political philosophy, his ideas influenced modern democracy and liberalism. Philosopher and economist, known ...

The Maha Kumbh Mela 2025, one of the largest religious gatherings in the world, has begun at the Triveni Sangam in Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh. The Mela, which wil ...

It would be irresponsible not to. And so it is that we send off to the land that gave the world Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Euripides, Homer, Archimedes, and Melina Mercouri a former third-string ...