Following the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC, an outbreak of anti-Macedonian feeling swept Athens, forcing Aristotle ...

Everyone at the party was praising love, calling it beautiful and benevolent. Diotima says this cannot be the case. Love is ...

I spent most of the past 15 years translating the complete works of Plato from Ancient Greek into English, and these ...

If you’ve ever pondered the universe at 2 a.m. or spiraled into a debate with yourself about free will while the number of ...

Further to my earlier letter titled, “Psychology of Greed and Philosophy for a New World Order” (The Island 26.11.2025) it ...

The Stoic dichotomy treats betrayal like weather. Plato knew better: another person's choices flow from character—and ...

Prologue 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 ...

By Slavoj Žižek, Global Eminent Scholar at Kyung Hee University We celebrate World Philosophy Day every third Thursday in November. This year it fell on Nov. 20. So let’s use this opportunity to ...

At the beginning of the pestilence and when it ends, there’s always a propensity for rhetoric. ... It is only in the thick of ...

One of the most critically acclaimed playwrights of our age, Tom Stoppard, has died at 88. He assumed his audience was as ...

Specifically, physicists and philosophers tend to conflate what it means for something to exist and what it means for ...

The Tao Te Ching, written by ancient Chinese philosopher Laozi, stands alongside the Analects of Confucius as a cornerstone ...