Plato's possible final resting place was hinted at through deciphering ancient scroll, linking him to a garden at the Academy in Athens, recent research using advanced imaging technologies shows.

Rebecca Goldstein has written a timely book about our own age by taking us back to an earlier age—that of the ancient Greeks. She wants to know what the works of Plato can teach us about the life ...

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Quote of the day: Ancient Greek philosopher Plato, a student of Socrates, believed true wisdom stems from acknowledging what ...

Can children truly learn under pressure? Plato believed the best education comes not from force, but from curiosity. Discover ...

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It is a secret fantasy of countless philosophy graduates to rewrite Plato’s masterpiece, The Republic, for a modern audience. For his first movie, playwright Conor McPherson got to the third word of ...

Ancient Cynicism was a philosophy of virtue, simplicity and moral independence—not pessimism. Perhaps that’s exactly what ...

Plato wrote dialogues. This is striking not only because it differs so wildly from the usual philosophical style today; often dry, usually abstract, always tightly argued prose. It matters because we ...

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 ...