Did Plato describe a real lost city when he spoke about Atlantis or did he invent a warning? Bradley Walsh investigates in Out of this World.

Ancient Greek philosophy, metaphysics/ontology, epistemology, history of natural science, political ethics Theme: Plato, who ...

Matthew Sharpe is a member of an international ARC Discovery team working on the history of philosophical practices in the West. Derrida’s key idea is captured in the title of a later, 1972 collection ...

A single sentence attributed to the ancient Greek philosopher Plato has been circulating through economic forums, wellness communities, and financial independence discussions for months. It proposes a ...

Most people are too tired to be philosophers. Unless you are living on investments or your job requires certain kinds of intellectual activity – teaching at a university, say, or writing about books ...

Greek philosophy is conventionally divided into the Pre-Socratic and Socratic periods. This division, however, seems arbitrary to the point that Anthony Gottleib sarcastically remarks, “The only fault ...

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 ...