The Republic (c. 375 BCE), featuring Plato’s teacher Socrates in dialogue with several friends, is unquestionably central to ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who is on an eight-day tour of five nations, will be visiting Trinidad and Tobago today after ...

Detail from the Chigi vase. Source: Wikimedia Commons/Public domain While discussing philosophy in the public square, Socrates would also have been training as a hoplite, a heavily armed foot ...

Clary Doyle was the undergraduate student speaker at Northwestern University’s 2025 commencement. Her address to classmates ...

Socrates was remarkably full-blooded for an ascetic philosopher. In Xenophon’s Symposium, he says, “For myself I cannot name the time at which I have not been in love with someone.” By all ...

The Greek philosopher was the godfather of Stoicism and the original self-help guru. Here’s how you can apply his methods to ask better questions, set better goals, and find clarity of purpose.

Socrates was remarkably full-blooded for an ascetic philosopher. In Xenophon’s Symposium, he says, “For myself I cannot name the time at which I have not been in love with someone.” By all ...