Abstract ideas rarely fail because they are false; they fail because they are hard to grasp. Across history, deep thinkers ...

THE subject is on the curriculum of many departments of philosophy — Filipino philosophy. Leonardo Mercado, an SVD missionary and a prolific writer on the subject, has written repeatedly about it. I ...

The university is reviewing courses under new rules restricting teaching about race and gender. Administrators told a philosophy professor to cut some lessons on Plato to comply. By Alan Blinder ...

Greek philosophy is conventionally divided into the Pre-Socratic and Socratic periods. This division, however, seems arbitrary to the point that Anthony Gottleib sarcastically remarks, “The only fault ...

I learned a few things about Plato in high school and in my university classes on ancient and medieval Greek history. I improved that meager understanding of this great philosopher on my own: reading ...

Japanese proverbs, or kotowaza, are short, poetic reflections shaped by centuries of culture, philosophy, and everyday wisdom. These sayings offer powerful insights into human nature, perseverance, ...

The Academy became the model for what a real university should be: a place of honest inquiry, moral formation, and resistance to every ideology, as thinkers from antiquity to Newman have affirmed. On ...

Korean proverbs are small sentences with big lessons, shaped by generations of observation, culture, and lived experience. Rooted in simplicity, they remind us how to face challenges, treat others ...

When Plato was an infant, bees alighted on his lips and, nestling there, set about making honey. His parents had placed him, sleeping, on the summit of a mountain while they paid tribute to the gods, ...

Plato "Tete" Pearson Jr., son of the late Catherine Scurry Pearson and Plato Pearson, Sr., died peacefully on October 22, 2025 at his Covenant Village home. Tete was a lifelong resident of Gastonia ...