The dialogues of Plato's The Republic are regarded as the first great texts on political and moral theory. Philosopher Simon Blackburn has written... Plato's 'Republic' Still Influential, Author Says ...

Plato and the allegory of the Ring of Gyges may have had a surprising influence on J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings.

"Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away," by Rebecca Newberger Goldstein. Pantheon. 481 pages. $29.95. Plato takes on Bill O'Reilly! The great philosopher, dead for 2,400 years, argues ...

It is a secret fantasy of countless philosophy graduates to rewrite Plato’s masterpiece, The Republic, for a modern audience. For his first movie, playwright Conor McPherson got to the third word of ...

"It was kind of a primitive internet," Dear said, explaining that a lot of the PLATO systems were interconnected. You could send messages, and message forums were connected, and you could read about ...

Socrates’ method was to clear his students’ minds of abstractions and assumptions, so that they might attain self-knowledge and learn the practical wisdom of living well. His pupil Plato, however, ...