Some quotations survive centuries because they still describe human behaviour with surprising accuracy. Even in a world of smartphones, artificial intelligence and social media, the ideas written by ...

I learned a few things about Plato in high school and in my university classes on ancient and medieval Greek history. I improved that meager understanding of this great philosopher on my own: reading ...

Socrates’ method was to clear his students’ minds of abstractions and assumptions, so that they might attain self-knowledge and learn the practical wisdom of living well. His pupil Plato, however, ...

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 ...

When Plato was an infant, bees alighted on his lips and, nestling there, set about making honey. His parents had placed him, sleeping, on the summit of a mountain while they paid tribute to the gods, ...

Plato held that an open mind is necessary to wisdom. Those who fear knowledge are like prisoners in a cave, believing shadows to be reality, trapped in a limited understanding. And this is one reason ...