Even in ancient Greece, people worried about philosophy’s subversive effect on tender minds.

I learned a few things about Plato in high school and in my university classes on ancient and medieval Greek history. I improved that meager understanding of this great philosopher on my own: reading ...

In his famous cave allegory, the Greek philosopher Plato sought to show a way toward enlightenment. Today, Houston Methodist Hospital is using 3-D technology in its own Plato's Cave in hopes of ...

Most people believe that self-awareness is important. Self-awareness partly involves recognizing that there are limits to our knowledge and understanding of things, making us open to considering ...

Alfred North Whitehead, the American philosopher, once wrote that all of Western philosophy is but just a footnote to Plato. Outside of its patent exaggeration, we can take this statement to be a ...

Some 2400 years ago, Greek philosopher, Plato wrote a narrative called “The Allegory of the Cave.” In this parable Plato puts forth a theory concerning human perception, distinguishing between sensory ...