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 ...

Thirty verses were found on a 2,000-year-old Papyrus in Cairo ...

A work by a 'lost' Ancient Greek philosopher has been discovered, written on a 2,000-year-old papyrus fragment discovered in ...

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 ...

It describes his vision of an ideal and just society that would be ruled by philosopher-kings. Over two thousand years later, this work on political theory and justice remains deeply relevant as we ...

Katie has a PhD in maths, specializing in the intersection of dynamical systems and number theory. She reports on topics from maths and history to society and animals. Katie has a PhD in maths, ...

Martin Peterson made headlines earlier this year when he was banned from teaching an excerpt from Plato’s Symposium in his ...

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 ...

Diogenes of Sinope, a beggar who lived on the streets of Athens in the fourth century B.C.E., has been hailed as the progenitor of performance art, an inspiration for the Occupy movement, and, by the ...