What does love truly mean in Plato’s Symposium? Plato’s poetic and dramatic vision of love still matters for how we ...

In my writing and rhetoric courses, students have plenty of opinions on whether AI is intelligent: how well it can assess, ...

If intelligence requires embodiment, as Plato and Aristotle believed, it might seem as if artificial intelligence is coming ...

There are more than 50 theories for the function of this 12-sided, pentagonal-faced bronze object — but archaeologists have ...

Murry Rothbard (1926-95) started his book 'The Anatomy of the State' with a predictable quotation, 'the greatest danger to the State is intellectual independent criticism.' He himself was dubbed 'the ...

The fastpaced modern life where we often ignore the value of commitment to others is a recipe for loneliness suggests the Anglican Archbishop of SydneyPreaching at the Easter service at St Andrews Cat ...

Plato, the Greek philosopher who lived in the 5th century B.C.E. [before the common era], believed that the universe was made of five types of matter: earth, air, fire, water, and cosmos. Each was ...

What’s outside this “flat” bubble of our universe is anyone’s guess. This shape supports the idea of a cosmos that expands forever.

Despite centuries of efforts to map our planet precisely, our view of the world will always be political and imperfect. Donald Trump’s shocking renaming of the ‘Gulf of America’ is just the ...

According to Plato, these exist independently of personal interests or advantages and shape the perceptions of every individual. Among others, justice requires refraining from harming others even when ...