In Plato's Ion Socrates discusses with the titular character, a professional rhapsode who also lectures on Homer, the question of whether the rhapsode, a performer of poetry,...

Gorgias is a Socratic dialogue written by Plato around 380 BC.Plato (424/423 – 348/347 BC) was a philosopher in Classical Greece and the founder of the Academy in Athens,...

Protagoras is a dialogue by Plato.Plato (424/423[b] – 348/347 BC) was a philosopher in Classical Greece and the founder of the Academy in Athens, the first institution of...

Plato's Cratylus is a dialogue about the correctness of namesPlato (424/423 – 348/347 BC) was a philosopher in Classical Greece and the founder of the Academy in Athens,...

"Utopia" is a work of fiction and political philosophy by Thomas More (1478–1535).The book is a frame narrative primarily depicting a fictional island society and...

"The Physics" of Aristotle is one of the foundational books of Western science and philosophy.As Martin Heidegger once wrote;"The Physics is a lecture in which he...

"On the Shortness of Life" is a moral essay written by Seneca the Younger, a Roman Stoic philosopher, to his friend Paulinus. The philosopher brings up many Stoic...

The New Organum, full original title "Novum Organum Scientiarum" (‘new instrument of science’), is a philosophical work by Francis Bacon, written in Latin...

« One hundred years ago, in 1913, Miguel de Unamuno published a book called The Tragic Sense of Life. It was considered — in his time — to be a masterpiece, an...

The Philosophy of Tea is not mere aestheticism in the ordinary acceptance of the term, for it expresses conjointly with ethics and religion our whole point of view about man and...