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 ...

Professor of Philosophy Martin Peterson, Ph.D., gave an independent lecture on Plato’s “Symposium” and addressed concepts of ...

The most famous image of Plato is found in the Vatican mural by Raphael, The School of Athens. Positioned centrally are Plato, pointing to the heavens, and Aristotle, pointing to the earth. It conveys ...

In Plato's Allegory of the Cave, Plato provides a timeless insight into how we are often "prisoners" of our mind, in that we are born into a world of "shadows", which we confuse with reality. Wisdom ...

Plato was a famous Greek philosopher from ancient Athens who shaped Western philosophy. He was a student of Socrates and later taught Aristotle. Plato wrote many works in the form of dialogues that ...

How can you teach a philosophy class without mentioning Plato? Texas A&M University professor Martin Peterson is trying to figure that out. Plato was a father of Western philosophy, famously a student ...

A funny thing happened on the way to spring semester at Texas A&M. Martin Peterson, a professor of philosophy, was given a choice by the administration. Either remove excerpts from Plato’s dialogue, ...

Plato wrote dialogues. This is striking not only because it differs so wildly from the usual philosophical style today; often dry, usually abstract, always tightly argued prose. It matters because we ...

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 ...