Plato’s Republic, a vision of an ideal city, rejects poets, arguing that imitation warps truth and trains unruly emotions instead of virtue.

Author reveals the fourth element of Plato's model, showing how this dimension transforms the understanding of an influential text in Western philosophy REDDING, Calif., Aug. 5, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- ...

The dichotomy between truth and appearance, and the devaluation of appearance, is rooted in pre-Socratic philosophy. Just as Plato leant upon Heraclitus’ flux for his conception of the sensible world ...

Commentary: Too many modern universities — for centuries hallowed halls that encouraged passionate debate — have lost their ...

Diogenes of Sinope, a beggar who lived on the streets of Athens in the fourth century B.C.E., has been hailed as the progenitor of performance art, an inspiration for the Occupy movement, and, by the ...

There is something about Recompile that might not be apparent when watching trailers, and that's how Phigames uses Plato's philosophy as a source of inspiration. Phi Dinh talks with Game Rant about ...

“If I could choose one book to bring with me to a desert island, … it would absolutely be Plato’s ‘Republic.’ … I teach it every year, and I still discover new and exciting things, it still makes me ...

Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (2400 years ago) have laid the foundation of Western civilization and culture, as expressed in Plato’s ‘The Republic’. Their idea of justice, society, human nature, can ...

Georgios Gemistos Pletho, the last great Greek Platonist, inspired the Renaissance with his radical vision for Hellenism and ...