Socrates’ method was to clear his students’ minds of abstractions and assumptions, so that they might attain self-knowledge ...
Claiming Plato founded the first university misses the mark. The Greeks were latecomers.
What books were in Plato’s library and why is everyone getting wasted there? By Simon Critchley Mr. Critchley is a philosophy professor and author. The weekend traffic in the center of Athens was ...
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 ...