The Republic, the best-known work of ancient Greek philosopher Plato on democracy, authored around 375 BC, has shaped ...

The Greek philosopher's writing explores themes of sexuality and gender, making it susceptible to the university's new rules ...

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Martin Peterson has taught philosophy at Texas A&M University for more than a decade, but now the school has barred him from ...

While this thesis is old as the hills, Leo Strauss was its chief exponent in recent times. See his general account of “Plato,” in Leo Strauss and Joseph Cropsey, History of Political Philosophy (3rd ...

Strictly speaking, there can be no biography of Plato — only what Carol Atack calls a “biographical tradition.” Exactly when he was born, exactly where he traveled, and to what extent his famous ...

One of my less than admirable traits is to attempt to categorize and organize everything into its simplest terms. All too often, simple devolves to simplistic as I keep trying to pound an unwilling ...