For ancient Greek philosopher Socrates, the soul lives in the ideal realm, as it is eternal, unchanging, and survives the ...

Born in 427 BC, Plato fled Athens in 399 BC after Socrates was executed, blaming democracy and the Peloponnesian War for his teacher's death. An aristocrat and an elitist, much of what we know about ...

Iqbal thought that a human being’s creative spirit was weakened by turning their attention away from the realities of life ...

Plato, a student of great philosopher Socrates, founded the Academy in Athens and wrote philosophical dialogues. His work ...

In Plato’s cave, humans watch silhouettes flicker on the wall, unaware that fires just behind them are distorting reality into a shadow world – not unlike the world we find ourselves in today, aided ...

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 soldier ...

This year marks the hundredth anniversary of the Loeb Classical Library, one of the most remarkable publishing projects in modern history. Yet as with everything book-related in the year 2011, the ...

University of Oxford provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. Where did Socrates, the foundational figure of Western philosophy, get the inspiration for his original ideas about truth, ...