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/ -- ...

Cognitive therapy identifies core beliefs. But how do you evaluate them? Plato offered a criterion sharper than "adaptive": one that clinicians can use today.

Sometimes, even the newest ideas have ancient roots. Take, for example, neoconservatism, the radical philosophy that supposedly guided the Bush administration’s ill-fated foreign policy decisions. Who ...

One of my less than admirable traits is to attempt to categorize and organize everything into its simplest terms. All too often, simple devolves to simplistic as I keep trying to pound an unwilling ...

In her review of “Plato Goes to China” by Shadi Bartsch (Bookshelf, Feb. 27), Martha Bayles rightly defends Leo Strauss against the charge that the professor was an antidemocrat who would have favored ...

Plato never wrote a dialogue called "The Republic." He wrote the Politeia (Πολιτεία), which translates to "constitution." But here's what few people know: ancient editors felt this title alone was ...

The time for the Ugandan adult citizens to exercise their rights of voting was manifested in the January 2021 elections. As a Ugandan citizen and a lover of philosophy, I had embarked on which ...

Jo Walton's The Just City, which came out in January and which I utterly adored, ends on a wicked cliff-hanger: The real-world version of Plato's Republic that scholars and philosophers from different ...