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 results of PLATO (A Study of Platelet Inhibition and Patient Outcomes) 1 provide a major advance in our understanding of ADP receptor inhibition with the novel agent ticagrelor. When compared ...

Ruling is a skilled trade, Plato argues. And like any other trade, not everyone has the talent or the training to be good at ...

What Plato can teach us about living a good life ©Shutterstock Few philosophers have had the impact of Plato. Born in ancient Greece , this student of Socrates grew to be one of the foundational ...

He said that mathematical laws and not the gods controlled the universe. Plato's own teacher had been executed for heresy. Secrecy was normal in ancient times, especially for esoteric and religious ...

Born in 427 BC, Plato fled Athens in 399 BC after Socrates was executed, blaming democracy and the Peloponnesian War for his teacher's death. An aristocrat and an elitist, much of what we know ...