A single sentence attributed to the ancient Greek philosopher Plato has been circulating through economic forums, wellness communities, and financial independence discussions for months. It proposes a ...

In my roughly 10 years of philosophical education — four in college, one in a master’s program and five as a PhD candidate — it never occurred to me that Plato was a person. Of course, I read and ...

Only those who can appreciate what they have, even if it is little, are richer than those who always want more, even if they are millionaires. Not long ago, I heard a phrase that made me think and ...

How can you teach a philosophy class without mentioning Plato? Texas A&M University professor Martin Peterson is trying to figure that out. Plato was a father of Western philosophy, famously a student ...

"Tenbyou no Uta" is a song about a summer romance that one knows will eventually end, yet still harbors the wish that it ...

Sometimes, even the newest ideas have ancient roots. Take, for example, neoconservatism, the radical philosophy that supposedly guided the Bush administration’s ill-fated foreign policy decisions. Who ...

Plato was a Greek philosopher who came up with a lot of interesting ways to view the world. Many people have different ways of viewing the world, and that is wonderful for keeping the world anything ...