The older I get, the less I know. Isn’t that supposed to be the other way around?

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 ...

the “Protagoras”, the “Phraedrus”, “The Georgias”, and the “Apology of Socrates”. They appeared originally in the Monthly Repository of 1834–35, and have been almost neglected ...

According to Patocka, it was Socrates’ fate at the hands of the Athenian authorities that motivated Plato to provide us with “the first systematic reflection on the state.” This came in the ...

The Genesis of the Forms Plato’s authorship spanned some fifty years, from the death of Socrates in 399 BCE to his own death in c. 348. He is traditionally ascribed with 35 dialogues ...

As Americans go to the polls Tuesday, the U.S. presidential standard bearers describe a nation whose very soul hangs in the ...

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

The shop is stocked with ties, scarves, cufflinks, but also sweatshirts, t-shirts, umbrellas, office supplies, notebooks, ...

Plato’s work comes from a different culture ... our lost “other half” through sexual love. The hero-philosopher Socrates’s speech is similarly colourful. It features him reminiscing ...

Drawing on Plato, Aristophanes, and Xenophon, What Would Socrates Do? reconstructs Socrates' philosophy alongside and against Athens's late fifth-century political culture. Sensitive to text and ...