In October of 2025, student employees from every campus of the University of California delivered a petition to their chancellor demanding that the university protect its internat ...

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 ...

Famous Greek philosopher Socrates was a polarizing figure in Athenian society.

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.

The ancient Greeks believed that those who govern society must possess not only power but also wisdom and moral virtue. The ...

Has the Atlantis mystery finally been solved? A new book reveals that Plato based his story on a real setting, now beneath 400 feet of water.

Local surfer Rick Kystallis shared video footage with Surfline of what he calls, "If not the biggest, than the heaviest day of waves ever to be seen in Northern Greece." One of the comment's reads, ...

Cisneros, awarded the National Medal of Arts in 2015, said she wants Texas A&M students to understand that the world is ...

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

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 ...

OSWEGO — A new book co-authored by Mark Zelcer of SUNY Oswego’s philosophy department aims to elevate one of Plato’s overlooked works to greater recognition. “Politics and Philosophy in Plato’s ...