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In Plato’s Republic, Socrates spends a long evening attempting to persuade his young interlocutors “that justice is better ...

Where Socrates emphasized individual people examining their lives and actions, Plato broadened his intellectual inquiries to include institutions and social organizations. His book The Republic is ...

Tribeca Trib owner and photographer Carl Glassman has assembled some of his favorite photos of the neighborhood taken over ...

You are bound to experience a firehose of conversations about the election. Next time, bring in some philosophy and make it ...

The Classical Greek sophists – Protagoras, Gorgias, Prodicus, Hippias, and Antiphon, among others – are some of the most important figures in the flourishing of linguistic, historical, and ...

Now, thousands of years later, we're in the fortunate position of being able to discuss Socrates' thinking, precisely because it was written down. Commentators often say the written word — books — are ...

The ancient Greek philosopher Socrates once said, “the unexamined life is not worth living.” It is with this desire to ...

Socrates felt he was helping the youth think by asking them ... This was also the view of the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche in his 1883 book Thus Spoke Zarathustra. Nietzsche has Zarathustra ...

Socrates argues that that which is compounded ... he gains immortality and the love of the gods. In Book 5 of the Republic, in discussing the ideal state and the education of its guardians ...

I'm delighted to pass along this book review by Prof. Jacob Mchangama (Vanderbilt), who is the author of Free Speech: A History from Socrates to Social Media and other works on free speech ...

The Aspen Institute offers many programs and seminars for lots of different subjects, ranging from business, justice, sports ...