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 described tyranny as the most disordered constitution in both cities and psyches. His ancient diagnostic tools still ...

Hypatia, one of the greatest philosophers of Alexandria, was admired for her ideas but was brutally murdered for them by ...

Transgender people have been a major political talking point for multiple years now, with discussions primarily focusing on trans people’s access to public bathrooms, sports and medical transitions.

In recent months, political pressure has been reshaping Texas’ public universities. Teaching and research, the drivers of university excellence, increasingly answer to politicians rather than the ...

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, ...

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 ...

The crackdowns on “wokeness” and “liberal indoctrination” in American higher education reached a ridiculous new low last week when a philosophy professor revealed that Texas A&M University objected to ...

Thomas Jefferson loathed Plato. In 1814, he wrote to John Adams that he had been reading the Republic and came away unimpressed: “Bringing Plato to the test of reason, take from him his sophisms, ...

COLLEGE STATION, Texas (KBTX) - A national higher education group is condemning Texas A&M University’s decision to remove course materials, including texts by Plato, calling the changes a violation of ...