The second annual student Writing Prize, a competition organized by The Atlantic and the College Board, challenged high-school students to do a close reading of a work of art that inspires them. More ...

Raphael's School of Athens depicts Aristotle and Plato at the center of a group of ancient Greek philosophers modeled on Raphael's contemporaries. Plato's finger points upward, while Aristotle's hand ...

A man is happy if he has merely encountered the shadow of a friend. —Menander Plato and Aristotle both give an important place to friendship in the good life: Plato devotes the major part of three ...