Professor of Philosophy Martin Peterson, Ph.D., gave an independent lecture on Plato’s “Symposium” and addressed concepts of ...

Was Plato a sage, spiritual teacher, or prophet whose philosophy echoed Christian ideas centuries before Christ?

In Plato's Allegory of the Cave, Plato provides a timeless insight into how we are often "prisoners" of our mind, in that we are born into a world of "shadows", which we confuse with reality. Wisdom ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ancient philosopher Plato's words on war's persistence resonate today. His quote, 'Only the dead have seen the end of war,' ...

For over 2,000 years, the story of Atlantis has fascinated historians, archaeologists, and skeptics alike. First described by ...

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 ...