Since Donald J. Trump first came onto the political scene, I have thought a lot about the philosopher-kings of Plato’s Republic.In a climate of norm-breaking politicians, increasing polarization ...

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 ...

As Plato’s mouthpiece, the character of Socrates, explains in the text, “unless philosophers become kings in the cities, or unless those now termed kings and rulers truly and fully practice ...

Without doubt, parent-less Plato met Socrates at an impressionable age. The execution of the man who taught Plato philosophy also served as a life-long example of the need to be circumspect, to avoid ...

Colin McGinn reviews "Plato at the Googleplex: Why PHilosophy Won't Go Away," by Rebecca Newberger Goldstein. The ancient philosopher takes Manhattan, gets a brain scan and tries to make sense of ...

That hot new neoconservative philosopher named Plato The author of a new book about Plato's "Republic" explains how ancient Greek philosophy became dangerous in the hands of the Bush administration.