Sometimes, even the newest ideas have ancient roots. Take, for example, neoconservatism, the radical philosophy that supposedly guided the Bush administration’s ill-fated foreign policy decisions. Who ...

Last month, the implementation of a hotly contested new policy at Texas A&M made waves in the news and on social media.

How can you teach a philosophy class without mentioning Plato? Texas A&M University professor Martin Peterson is trying to figure that out. Plato was a father of Western philosophy, famously a student ...

Plato, a renowned ancient Greek philosopher, shaped intellectual history. He was a student of Socrates and the teacher of ...

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 ...

A famous section of Plato’s “Symposium,” in which the Greek playwright Aristophanes describes how humans were split by the gods and spend part of their lives searching for their other halves, is ...

The ancient Greek philosophers Plato and Aristotle both wrote about love. More than two millennia later, their teachings ...

Plato was a Greek philosopher who came up with a lot of interesting ways to view the world. Many people have different ways of viewing the world, and that is wonderful for keeping the world anything ...