To scholars of ancient philosophy, theoria denotes abstract thinking, with both Plato and Aristotle employing the term to signify philosophical contemplation. Yet it is surprising for some to find an ...

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 ...

Aristotle argued that if the world was just, the legal slaves would be freed, and if any natural slaves were by chance free, they should be made slaves. The Greek philosopher Plato thought ...

Rogers, Dallas 2012. Research, Practice, and the Space Between. Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies, Vol. 12, Issue. 3, p. 242.

In this pathbreaking study of the works of Plato, Aristotle, Rousseau, and Mill, Susan Moller Okin turns to the tradition of political philosophy that pervades Western culture and its institutions to ...

Philosophy, the pursuit of wisdom, is anchored by two profound inquiries: epistemology, the study of knowledge, and ontology, the study of being .

The dissolution isn't new either, with Plato and Aristotle writing about the ageing process over 2,300 years ago.