The dialogues of Plato's The Republic are regarded as the first great texts on political and moral theory. Philosopher Simon Blackburn has written... Plato's 'Republic' Still Influential, Author Says ...

It is a secret fantasy of countless philosophy graduates to rewrite Plato’s masterpiece, The Republic, for a modern audience. For his first movie, playwright Conor McPherson got to the third word of ...

Plato takes on Bill O’Reilly! The great philosopher, dead for 2,400 years, argues with Amy Chua! And Daniel Dennett! And Google! This is philosopher-novelist Rebecca Newberger Goldstein’s hook in her ...

As atheists debate the merits of philosophy, 'Plato at the Googleplex' author Rebecca Goldstein tells RNS that philosophy isn’t in competition with science and explains why atheists shouldn’t dismiss ...

It is possible to argue about who is the finest Renaissance painter. It is possible to argue in this way about sculptors, writers, poets, more or less any sort of artist. However, if the question is ...

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, ...

Plato was a Greek philosopher who came up with a lot of interesting ways to view the world. Many people have different ways of viewing the world, and that is wonderful for keeping the world anything ...