Aristotle, who is often called the father of Western philosophy, was more than just a thinker. He was a constant observer of ...

In recent months, political pressure has been reshaping Texas’ public universities. Teaching and research, the drivers of university excellence, increasingly answer to politicians rather than the ...

The Jan. 14 editorial “Plato falls victim to campus culture wars” underscored a troubling irony. The Socratic method, developed by Socrates in the 5th century B.C. and conveyed through his student ...

Plato wrote over two thousand years ago about a prehistoric Atlantean civilization that existed more than nine thousand years before his time, or over eleven thousand years ago. Plato describes a ...

Some of my friends are amazed that censorship seems to have caught up even with Plato. A review of courses at Texas A&M University flagged texts by the ancient Greek thinker as violating a new ...

How can you teach a philosophy class without mentioning Plato? Texas A&M University professor Martin Peterson is trying to figure that out. Plato was a father of Western philosophy, famously a student ...

Thomas Jefferson loathed Plato. In 1814, he wrote to John Adams that he had been reading the Republic and came away unimpressed: “Bringing Plato to the test of reason, take from him his sophisms, ...

Anti-woke crusaders on college campuses have lost the plot when they cut Plato, architect of the Socratic method, from lesson plans. Texas A&M University has been aggressively scrutinizing course ...

As universities across Texas respond to new restrictions on classroom content, a directive limiting Plato readings at Texas A&M University has prompted concern among scholars who say it crosses into ...

As a professor of philosophy and ethics, I am more accustomed to reading the news than being a part of it. But many media outlets have reported this week on a directive I was given to excise Plato ...

AUSTIN (Nexstar) — Texas A&M schools are quickly working to implement changes required by a systemwide policy change barring advocacy of race or gender ideology in most classrooms. The change — ...

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. In an unprecedented decision, Texas A&M University is requiring a professor to remove ...