Plato once warned that democracy does not select the best leaders; it selects the best persuaders. Not the wisest, but the ...

Alexander the Great and the first President of modern Greece Ioannes Kapodistrias employed the Hellenic civilization for the good of humanity ...

I teach the history and thought of the European Enlightenment. These aren't Enlightenment values.

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Texas A&M donor Jon Hagler says the school’s regents are failing it, threatening academic freedom and kowtowing to ...

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The ancient philosopher whose name is known to almost everyone is Plato. His works are widely read and acknowledged even today. Plato was the student of Socrates and the teacher of Aristotle. He is ...

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 ...

There’s a sense of triumphalism in the headlines. “Texas A&M is banning Plato, citing his ‘gender ideology,’” one caption at Literary Hub read. “An ancient Greek philosopher falls victim to campus ...

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 ...