Poet Laureate was a man of undeniable industry but without talent to match. You might say Michael Massey Robinson possessed ...

If you're a young person (or a parent of one), you may be thinking some big thoughts about your future. Am I going to go to ...

In Book X of the Republic, Plato expels the poetry of Homer and his followers- “the poetry of pleasure” as he calls it- from his ideal state by observing that there is an ancient quarrel between ...

How two amateur schools pulled a generation of thinkers from the workers and teachers of the 19th-century American Midwest ...

In the Indian context, storytelling is deeply embedded in the guru-shishya (teacher-student) tradition. Complex philosophical and ethical teachings are often conveyed through parables and fables, ...

Based on the Greek verb hermēneuō (to interpret), hermeneutics investigates interpretation’s theory and practice. From ...

The idea can be traced back to sources such as Plato’s Republic, in which Socrates extolls the ... written work to win an Olympic gold medal was “Ode to Sport,” a prose poem by Georges Hohrod and M.

You don’t get to perfection without participation. Democracy is a verb, not a noun. So, when the time comes, get out there ...

Socrates’ recurrent dream shows that valuable insights from dreaming can blossom forth at any time of life, all the way ...

Ironically, Plato himself is in part responsible for this situation, through his focus on the “quarrel between poetry and philosophy” (Rep. 607b). Indeed, it has recently been argued that he was the ...

A late-blooming poet reflects on his journey of pursuing an MFA centered in the Catholic literary tradition, and how it fits ...