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, ...

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 ...

Academics have become embroiled in a furious scrap over a university's decision to sideline philosophers such as Aristotle and Socrates in favour of 'decolonising' classroom learning by getting rid of ...

'Woke' academics have sidelined philosophers such as Aristotle and Socrates in favour of 'decolonising' classroom learning by getting rid of 'dead white men'. A new toolkit for schools and ...

A prominent writer and opinion-maker told the following anecdote in a recent talk. He had ordered some take-out food, and the man delivering it saw books by Plato and Aristotle on his shelves and said ...

Where did Socrates, the foundational figure of Western philosophy, get the inspiration for his original ideas about truth, love, justice, courage and knowledge? New research I’ve conducted reveals ...

Marble statues of the Greek philosophers Socrates, right, and Plato sit in front of the Athens Academy. Socrates tried and failed to teach Alcibiades, a controversial political and military leader in ...

Snowflake scholars at London's School of Oriental and African Studies say some of history's greatest thinkers should only be taught 'if required' CRACKPOT student union chiefs want a ban on some of ...

It is possible to argue about who is the finest Renaissance painter. It is possible to argue in this way about sculptors, writers, poets, more or less any sort of artist. However, if the question is ...