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

After studying under Plato at his academy ... after he was banished from his beloved Athens. This episode charts Aristotle’s incredible rise and fall, exploring his intellectual career and ...

If Plato said these things, it must have been in what Aristotle calls his 'unpublished' teaching. How can we trust implicitly either Aristotle's apprehension of Plato's meaning, or even his ...

It is a philosophical debate that has raged for millennia. From Aristotle’s belief in becoming, we can understand how he derived his belief in our essential nature. Our essence is an evolving ...

Other historic friendships that have led to innovative breakthroughs include ancient Greek philosophers Plato and his student Aristotle, whose ideas and teachings in philosophy still shape our ...

Philosophers Plato, Avicenna and Aristotle. Credit: Blondinrikard Fröberg/Flickr and in public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. A scene from an illuminated manuscript of ‘Maqamat al-Hariri’, a ...

The Greek philosopher Plato was a student of Socrates and a teacher of Aristotle. Leonidas Drosis via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 DEED Thanks to an ancient text and specialized scanning ...

He served Rome but remained Greek. He said that Plato, Aristotle, and other thinkers like the Stoic Zeno wrote and taught how to live in ideal cities but never translated their ideas into ...

He had ordered some take-out food, and the man delivering it saw books by Plato and Aristotle on his shelves and said "oh, we have the same interests." I guess the punch line depends on some ...

Aristotle was seventeen when he left his native land for Athens, where he evidently encountered Plato and his Academy—the legendary circle of scientists, mathematicians, and philosophers.