The student-teacher relationship between Alexander the Great and the philosopher Aristotle is a well-known chapter in the ...

Alan Cheuse reviews the prize-winning book "The Golden Mean" by Annabel Lyon. The historical novel tells a story of the Greek philosopher Aristotle teaching Alexander the Great. Cheuse teaches writing ...

Regarding Martha Bayles’s review of “Rescuing Socrates” by Roosevelt Montás (Bookshelf, Nov. 8): Teaching Aristotle’s “Nicomachean Ethics” at a historically black college is not difficult because of ...

Aristotle (384–322 BCE) was perhaps the single most influential thinker to shape the Western world. His ideas dominated science, philosophy, and almost every field of human thought for almost two ...