Is privacy inherently valuable, or just one more variable in a society’s blueprint? The philosophers’ view, from Plato on ...

Source: Wikimedia Commons/Michelangelo/Public Domain Plato concluded the ten books of the Republic with the myth of Er, which greatly influenced the Western mind, down to our very idea of heaven ...

In the complex and often violent political arena of ancient Greece, ideals of civic engagement and self-determination mingled ...

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 ...

Plato’s cave allegory is a famous and influential idea from his book The Republic. It contains an important point about how things seem compared to how they really are. According to this story ...

As Ms. Herring shows in her lucid and moving biography, Bergson was a revolutionary thinker who stood Plato on his head. The Platonic idea of universal forms, by which the material changing world ...

The hidden codes show that Plato anticipated the Scientific Revolution 2,000 years before Isaac Newton, discovering its most important idea – the book of nature is written in the language of ...