The great ancient Greek philosopher Plato (died 348/347 B.C.), student of Socrates and teacher of Aristotle (who, incidentally, later become the private tutor to a young prince eventually known as ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Philosophy quite literally means “love of wisdom.” What book-lover wouldn’t want to dive deeper into that ...

Many people mark the end of the ancient world with the fall of Rome in 476 AD — but some argue the true ending came in 529 AD, when Emperor Justinian shut down the Academy of Athens. For nearly a ...

On March 25 at 9 a.m. in Princeton, 21 people began to gather virtually from five time zones to embark on a graduate half-seminar under my direction on Plato’s "Statesman." It was one of the first ...

The title of Carlos Fraenkel’s conceptually thin yet agreeable new book, Teaching Plato in Palestine, is misleading. Only the first chapter, which finds the author co-teaching a seminar at East ...

Socrates, one of the greatest philosophers of ancient Greece, profoundly shaped the way humans think about life, ethics, and self-awareness. His teachings, preserved through the writings of his ...