Like Socrates, Plato remained convinced there were such things as absolute goodness, beauty and truth. He believed the soul was eternal, and all knowledge was just a remembering of things the soul ...

Artificial intelligence is transforming “the way we think about the world, the way that we communicate [and] our political culture in a democracy,” Greece’s former prime minister George Papandreou ...

Plato’s Socrates argues that love begins with physical desire — specifically, the desire of a man for a beautiful adolescent boy — but then “mount [s] for that beauty’s sake ever upwards ...

By Professor Cheng SongliuIn his bookThe Origin and Goal of History, German philosopher Karl Jaspers introduced the concept of the “Axial Age”, which has gained widespread recognition in global ...

And yet, as Luis E. Navia, a professor of philosophy at the New York Institute of Technology, states in his recent Socrates: A Life Examined (Prometheus Books, 2007), “little of substance ...

Plato’s authorship spanned some fifty years, from the death of Socrates in 399 BCE to his own death in c. 348. He is traditionally ascribed with 35 dialogues, although around ten of these may be ...

With Plato as our instrument, the class will discuss what he and Socrates were asking, how their questions change ground over time, and what sorts of answers they arrived at—and how this all leads to ...

Plato, then, took Socrates’ critical attitude and generalized it beyond morality and politics to the search for truth in all its forms. Plato may lack the scientific trappings of Aristotle, such ...

Plato’s well known skepticism of democracy seems the result of his fear of what happens when you put things to a vote. That’s how Socrates died — voted into a death sentence when his case was ...

Re “Higher Education Needs More Socrates and Plato,” by Ezekiel J. Emanuel and Harun Küçük (Opinion guest essay, nytimes.com, May 19): I applaud Professors Emanuel and Küçük and their ...