CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — When it comes to rhetoric, Plato was right and Aristotle — not so much. Distilled, Aristotle thought rhetoric good for democracy, though his definition of “by the people” was ...

The ancient Greeks left a wealth of knowledge through their surviving writings on a wide variety of themes, including science, logic, philosophy, literature, and the arts. In addition, the city-state ...

Discover how Greek and Roman thinkers interpreted myths through philosophy, allegory, and the concept of demons. From Plato and Aristotle to Neoplatonist scholars, this video reveals how ancient myths ...

Aristotle, Plato, and Pythagoras are hailed as intellectual giants and great founders of scientific thought, and it would be difficult to deny them this lofty description. In the 500s BC, Pythagoras ...

Plato's own pupil, Aristotle, was born in 384 BC and began as an ardent supporter of his teacher. However, gradually he modified his teacher's views and turned away from the world of ideas back to the ...

Aristotle, a pivotal Greek philosopher born in Stagira in 384 BC , studied at Plato's Academy and tutored Alexander the Great ...

In recent decades, it has become increasingly clear that psychological stressors can lead to physical symptoms not only by the ego defence of somatization but also by physical processes involving the ...

A prominent writer and opinion-maker told the following anecdote in a recent talk. He had ordered some take-out food, and the man delivering it saw books by Plato and Aristotle on his shelves and said ...

Prime Minister of Albania, Rama, sparked controversy with sarcastic remarks directed at his Greek moderator and Greece's ...

When we turn to the other most famous ancient Greek philosopher, Aristotle (384 B.C. – 322 B.C.), we find little of the political regimentation that characterizes his teacher, Plato. For Aristotle, ...