Was Plato a sage, spiritual teacher, or prophet whose philosophy echoed Christian ideas centuries before Christ?

T he American left is a pretty cerebral lot: It contains a lot of grad students, underemployed humanities majors and hyperliterate autodidacts, and this educational glut is often grounds for criticism ...

Three Olympic athletes showed patterns of self-governance that Plato once described, which also show up in everyday life.

He suffers more than necessary, who suffers before it is necessary” — focuses on the idea that much of human pain comes from worrying about the future. The Stoic philosopher argued that fearing events ...