PLATO gallery presents Phantasma, a group exhibition exploring imagination and illusion, drawing on philosophical debates from Plato and Aristotle; Seven artists bridge c ...
Star Trek delivered a mind-bending episode about identity and reality, secretly inspired by one of history’s most influential thinkers.
Plato was a famous Greek philosopher from ancient Athens who shaped Western philosophy. He was a student of Socrates and later taught Aristotle. Plato wrote many works in the form of dialogues that ...
Socrates was a philosopher warrior, exemplifying courage, endurance and the pursuit of virtue through action as well as thought.
Should we survive the next three years, the odds are good we will look back on Donald Trump’s second presidency as the “Years of Living Absurdly.” This, at least, is the view of media outlets, ranging ...
The ancient Greeks believed that those who govern society must possess not only power but also wisdom and moral virtue. The ...
A person who continually seeks after pleasure is leading a life that is unsuited to human being - it would be better suited to a life of a grazing animal. In contrast, Eudaimonia, as Aristotle defined ...
The people must believe in the politician. If mutual belief and respect do not exist, then chaos becomes the end result. Some ...
It is interesting to see parallels between Greek philosophers, our Rishis and Founders of Religions who directly experience, perceive, That Infinite Consciousness, the Singular Subject, the idea of ...
Are we all material—tissues and veins—or is there some nonmaterial substance, some essence, that transcends the corporeal ...
From the printing press to digital learning, education has evolved—but Generative AI is taking it to the next level. Imagine ...
Guest Columnist Paul Kurgan '27 reflects on his time at Oxford University and discusses how American universities can learn ...