Plato never wrote "The Republic." Ancient editors added a subtitle clarifying the work's true focus: individual psychology ...

Author reveals the fourth element of Plato's model, showing how this dimension transforms the understanding of an influential text in Western philosophy REDDING, Calif., Aug. 5, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- ...

The intersections of friendship, love, beauty, and war remain central issues in the fields of political philosophy and the humanities, profoundly ...

Strictly speaking, there can be no biography of Plato — only what Carol Atack calls a “biographical tradition.” Exactly when he was born, exactly where he traveled, and to what extent his famous ...

Given that students often express a desire for course content to be more "relevant" and applicable to their lives, I describe one method for effectively addressing this concern through the ...

While this thesis is old as the hills, Leo Strauss was its chief exponent in recent times. See his general account of “Plato,” in Leo Strauss and Joseph Cropsey, History of Political Philosophy (3rd ...

Update: A memorial service will be held for Prof. Joseph Copsey beginning at 10 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 29 at Rockefeller Memorial Chapel. Joseph Cropsey, a UChicago professor who was one of the nation’s ...