Todays Quote of the Day by Plato highlights the responsibility that capable individuals carry in society. In his famous work ...

The Greek philosopher Plato proposed gender equality, arguing women could participate in political and military life in his Republic.

Sometimes, even the newest ideas have ancient roots. Take, for example, neoconservatism, the radical philosophy that supposedly guided the Bush administration’s ill-fated foreign policy decisions. Who ...

Plato’s philosophy shaped the early theology of Christianity and influenced the doctrine of the Holy Trinity at Nicaea.

In Plato's Allegory of the Cave, Plato provides a timeless insight into how we are often "prisoners" of our mind, in that we are born into a world of "shadows", which we confuse with reality. Wisdom ...

Professor of Philosophy Martin Peterson, Ph.D., gave an independent lecture on Plato’s “Symposium” and addressed concepts of ...

Plato, a pivotal 4th-century BCE Athenian philosopher, profoundly influenced Western thought. His teachings on justice, ...

Plato wrote dialogues. This is striking not only because it differs so wildly from the usual philosophical style today; often dry, usually abstract, always tightly argued prose. It matters because we ...

Rebecca Goldstein has written a timely book about our own age by taking us back to an earlier age—that of the ancient Greeks. She wants to know what the works of Plato can teach us about the life ...