Plato's own pupil, Aristotle, was born in 384 BC and began as an ardent supporter of his teacher. However, gradually he modified his teacher's views and turned away from the world of ideas back to the ...

CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR: Cultural critic Thomas Chatterton Williams examines the complex relationship between the classics and identity politics. And he is speaking to Walter Isaacson about racism, ...

Abstract Current interpretations of early Greek rhetoric often rely on a distinction between the empirical stage of rhetoric (associated with the sophists) and the theory of rhetoric which was ...

The ancient Greeks left a wealth of knowledge through their surviving writings on a wide variety of themes, including science, logic, philosophy, literature, and the arts. In addition, the city-state ...

It is hard to imagine the “400 Silent Years,” or the intertestamental period between the Old and New Testaments, when God was silent, not speaking through prophets. There were shifts between the rules ...

MR. CHERNISS'S large volume will be most welcome to all serious students of Greek philosophy; none the less that it lays a heavy burden of duty upon them. There is already a vast literature in many ...

In my writing and rhetoric courses, students have plenty of opinions on whether AI is intelligent: how well it can assess, analyze, evaluate, and communicate information. When I ask whether artificial ...

In recent decades, it has become increasingly clear that psychological stressors can lead to physical symptoms not only by the ego defence of somatization but also by physical processes involving the ...

A partir do uso extensivo na Teoria do cinema da Alegoria da caverna apresentada por Platão em A República, o ensaio levanta uma série de questões sobre a pertinência desta analogia, e propõe em ...

It is unclear whether the Lyceum charged fees but, given its vast wealth, it probably didn’t need to. Sounds a little like Harvard, doesn’t it? By Simon Critchley Mr. Critchley is a professor of ...