One of the best known and most influential philosophers of all time, Plato has been admired for thousands of years as a teacher, writer, and student. His interests and knowledge were wide and varied, including science, mathematics, and poetry. Plato...

Plato, known as perhaps the greatest of all the ancient Greek philosophers and educators, was more interested in moral rather than natural (or scientific) philosophy. Nevertheless, he made many important contributions to the philosophy of mathematics...

Plato stands at the center of philosophical thought in the ancient world. He was the first person to approach philosophical issues systematically, but it was the genius with which he treated those issues that made his thought so influential. Virtually...

Plato was born into a wealthy, well-connected family of the old Athenian aristocracy (Davies 1971). He and his elder brothers Adeimantos and Glaukon (both of whom figure in the Republic) belonged to the circle of young men attached to Socrates, as did...

Freudian psychoanalysis places the Greek Oedipal myth, dramatised by Sophocles, as a timeless and universal frame to define father—son relations. Erotic longing for the mother, a key narrative element in the myth, creates feelings of violence and...

Since the early 1960s, the term plural society has been used to describe societies, usually at the level of independent states or colonial territories, characterized by sharp internal cleavages between ethnic, racial, religious or linguistic groups. By...

427-348? B.C. Greek Philosopher Although Plato himself did not contribute substantial works directly to science and mathematics, his philosophy and methods of education heavily influenced developments in these fields for many centuries. Many of his...

PLATO was one of the first generalized Computer assisted instruction systems, originally built by the University of Illinois and later taken over by Control Data Corporation (CDC), who provided the machines it ran on. PLATO ran for many years at the...

A woman says security workers forced her to remove her bra before she was allowed entry into a federal courthouse. "I was embarrassed and humiliated," Lori Plato said Wednesday. "I am a modest person and I know that I am not the first woman this...

Security guards refused to allow a woman into a federal courthouse until she removed a bra that triggered a metal detector.Lori Plato said she and her husband, Owen Plato, were stunned when U.S. Marshals Service employees asked her to remove her bra after the underwire...

Justice Samuel Alito doubts the public is clamoring for Supreme Court sessions to be televised and predicts they would battle Congress for last place in the ratings.Alito said Friday that the same-day availability of oral argument transcripts on the Internet and extensive media coverage means...

A love letter from Napoleon to his mistress Josephine sold for $557,000, more than five times its estimate, at a London auction that attracted spirited bidding for several rare items.The letter is one of only three known to have survived from the future emperor's passionate...

Plato wrote that "Society originates because the individual is not self-sufficient and no two of us is born exactly alike." These two assumptions are the basis for Plato's ideal society, in which different persons specialize in different skills. Plato proposed that philosophers are the right candidates to assume the responsibility of ruling the society, for he assumes only the philosophers have the wherewithal to perceive and work toward the society's common good while avoiding influence from wo

Describes how three philosophers; Plato, Fernando Savater, and Pierre Hadot explain an individuals transition from a particular and personal frame of mind, into one of universal nature.

Describes ancient Greek philosophers Plato's and Aristotle's views on poetry and the poet. Explores each philosopher's opinion on diction, mechanics, plot and character structure, and imitation.