Plato Euthyphro News Today

On Leo Strauss & the crisis of modern liberalism.

The revamped journal will provide opportunities for undergraduates to engage with Medieval Studies.

By Timothy Cahill ’16 M.A.R

Midcoast Senior College, bringing classes to seniors interested in lifelong learning, announces exciting new courses for its Fall Term I. Courses begin the week of Sept. 11 and are four- to eight-weeks long. There is a selection of in-person and...

Midcoast Senior College, bringing classes to seniors interested in lifelong learning, announces exciting new courses for its Fall Term I. Courses begin the week of Sept. 11 and are four- to eight-weeks long. There is a selection of in-person and...

Leo Strauss famously asserted that the fundamental, defining debate within Western civilization is that between Jerusalem and Athens, piety and philosophy, the Bible and Plato. And yet, surprisingly, Strauss never published any of his thoughts on Plato’s dialogue on piety, the Euthyphro. This volume presents, for the first time, Strauss’s 1948 notebook on the dialogue, written in preparation for a class at the New School for Social Research. Featuring close analysis and line-by-line commenta...

There are unseen forces at work in the world that we can’t explain.

Socrates teaches us that philosophical contemplation prepares us for the good life. The philosopher is anyone who dares to escape the cave.

Socrates was notoriously annoying. He was likened to a gadfly buzzing around while one is trying to sleep. The Oracle of Delphi declared him the wises

Princeton's valedictorian and salutatorian for 2022 are Natalia Orlovsky, a molecular biology concentrator from Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, and Frances Mangina, a philosophy concentrator from Toronto.