Plato then fled. When Dionysius invited him again in 363, professing new interest in philosophy, Plato stalled for two years before agreeing to come.

What do I mean by philosopher folks? In its ancient sense, embodied in Western thought by Socrates, Plato, Aristotle and the Hellenistic philosophers, philosophy is a kind of training for living well.

Plato's Conception of Philosophy Dr. H. Gauss By. Pp. xxii + 272. (London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1937.) 6s. net. THE author of this ably written book is right in considering philosophy less as ...

The Republic (c. 375 BCE), featuring Plato’s teacher Socrates in dialogue with several friends, is unquestionably central to ...

He warns that the man and his philosophy have “fused” in both the popular and the academic imagination. “An ethereal figure has taken shape, a platonic Plato,” he writes.

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

In The Philosopher Kings, the squabbling factions from The Just City have all founded their own versions of Plato's Republic a few miles apart, and Kebes — the first book's troublemaker — has ...