James Romm’s book is an intellectual thriller, showing how the ancient Greek thinker came to write “The Republic,” his masterpiece of political theory.

Explore Plato's life, his philosophical impact, and his travels to Sicily, along with key ideas on justice and the ideal ...

Price gouging is a practice that extends all the way back to Antiquity. The ancient Greek philosopher Plato prohibited craftsmen from “setting a greater price” than the actual value of a good ...

Plato is one of history’s most influential thinkers, the “sublime philosopher” whose writings remain foundational to Western culture. He is known for the brilliant dialogues in which he ...

His pupil Plato, however, found that practical knowledge led to the abstractions of metaphysics and political theory. Carol Atack’s “Plato: A Civic Life” traces Plato’s philosophy back to ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) is two dozen steps closer to launching Plato, a spacecraft that will search for terrestrial planets outside of our solar system, after the installation of 24 of its ...