The article explores Plato's preference for dialogue over written treatises, drawing upon an Egyptian tale where King Thamus ...

In 2024, researchers revealed they had found new details of the Ancient Greek philosopher Plato’s burial site. It was a ...

Four Dialogues of Plato, including the ‘Apology of Socrates’ Translations and Notes by John Stuart Mill. Edited, with an Introductory Essay, by Ruth Borchardt. Pp. vi + 194.

IT would have been a real treat for philosophers to have a genuine study of Plato's “Theory of Knowledge” by Prof. Cornford. As it stands, however, the title of the book is misleading as it ...

The thinker behind the ‘Republic’ and other works of philosophy also played political adviser to a series of rulers in Sicily ...

Plato envisioned dialogue as the path to enlightenment—where two minds, in conversation, could reach higher levels of understanding. But the dialogues generated by LLMs offer something ...

Diogenes likely washed up in Athens in the mid-360s, around the same time as a teenage Aristotle. At this point, Plato was nearly 60 and Antisthenes around 80—if, indeed, he was still alive.

In Plato and Xenophon’s time, dialogue was a preferred form of philosophical writing. In later periods, works like David Hume’s Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion (1779) were the exception.

In Plato’s dialogues, the philosopher presents Atlantis as a foil to the city-state of Athens, but even the geographical features in his account of Athens don’t add up against the ...