Newly published books about the lives of Plato and Diogenes send us back to a time when philosophy did not know what it would grow up to be. A remarkable fact about Robin Waterfield’s Plato of ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...

Carol Atack’s “Plato: A Civic Life” traces Plato’s philosophy back to his biography. Philosophy, Ms. Atack writes, prefers to “extract arguments from the text and remove them from their ...

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 ...

For those who suspect that such ideas are supported only by contemporary radicals, learning that their most articulate defenders have included Plato ... the history of philosophy can also be ...

How you answer that question will shape how you judge “Beyond Stoicism,” written by three self-proclaimed modern stoics: Massimo Pigliucci, a professor of philosophy at the City College of New ...

It is a secret fantasy of countless philosophy graduates to rewrite Plato’s masterpiece, The Republic, for a modern audience. For his first movie, playwright Conor McPherson got to the third ...