Without doubt, parent-less Plato met Socrates at an impressionable age. The execution of the man who taught Plato philosophy also served as a life-long example of the need to be circumspect, to avoid ...

If they’re telling you about their dream: what is real?

Greek philosopher Epicurus is famous for teaching: "Pleasure is the principle and end to a happy life" and for his Epicurean ...

According to Plato, love’s aim is not to complete us, but to inspire us to grow and become the best human being we can be.

Seán Radcliffe asks, has Plato’s Allegory of the Cave been warning us of social media for 2,400 years? The ‘Allegory of the Cave’ is a Socratic argument recorded by the Greek philosopher Plato, a ...

There are few works as unsettling as “The Republic.” Not because of its complexity or reputation but because it refuses to let us hide from the hardest questions: What is justice? Is it even possible?

What are the main theories about the true nature and location of Atlantis? Was it on Sardinia, Crete, Africa, or was it just ...

Epistemology is the branch of philosophy that deals with knowledge, belief, and the relationship between the two. Being one ...

And could it hold the key to understanding why, across the West, confidence in democracy is declining? The arguments Plato makes against democracy in The Republic are spoken by the philosopher ...

Plato believed that those who naturally dominate society should be those who are learned. In Plato’s ideal republic, the ideal ruler was dubbed the Philosopher King which is his ideal vision of a ...