In the complex and often violent political arena of ancient Greece, ideals of civic engagement and self-determination mingled ...

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Callard is a University of Chicago moral philosopher with a madcap streak, and a perpetually controversial figure for making ...

By T.J. Ray Columnist When four high school seniors showed up in the Circuit Clerk’s office one bright day, everything was ...

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No other classic text has left such a mark on how we tell stories, create theatre, and structure film. But what does it ...

The Republic, the best-known work of ancient Greek philosopher Plato on democracy, authored around 375 BC, has shaped ...

Ruling is a skilled trade, Plato argues. And like any other trade, not everyone has the talent or the training to be good at ...

As Ms. Herring shows in her lucid and moving biography, Bergson was a revolutionary thinker who stood Plato on his head. The Platonic idea of universal forms, by which the material changing world ...

Could Plato’s Atlantis be real? Johanna dives into the research of Randall Carlson and others to explore the scientific plausibility of a lost civilization in the Atlantic. From tectonic plate ...

Given that Egyptian records tell of a large war in the early 12th century BCE against these peoples, it might be tempting to connect this event to the legendary war against Atlantis since the ...