Socrates is the most important exponent of Western philosophy, his ideas forming a continuum from Ancient Greece to today's ...

“I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.” For a man who knew nothing, Plato certainly contributed a lot of knowledge to the world. Plato is hailed as one of ...

Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle are the golden trio of philosophy – in many ways, all three of them deserve to be on this list. Yet the latter’s ideas are definitely the most varied and influential.

Anyone who's done an undergraduate degree in philosophy will have been made to read the great philosophers of the past—the 16th and 17th-century rationalists and empiricists, certainly, probably some ...

Imagine that you are Plato, coming to the end of your years, presiding over the now-famous Academy, enjoying a reputation among both your students in particular and Athenians in general. You hear, ...