Reflections by late-Roman Stoic philosophers like Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, and Seneca, offer a remarkably contemporary ...

Philosophers who were disciples of Socrates worried about the moral and political habits encouraged by maritime life and access to the sea. Trade, mobility, and empire shaped character and transformed ...

This exchange makes professional philosophers titter, because their daily work is far removed from the production of sage utterances. But the request for “sayings” was not an unreasonable one. The ...

Philosophers could help policy makers to ask the right questions. But to give this practical help, academic philosophy must take lessons from open science In a widely-discussed recent essay for the ...

Pop goes the philosophy–it’s time for top 10 ancient atheist philosophers and their quotes. Philosophers aren’t always atheists. The one I dated for 7 years was though–I still tease her by saying God ...

“As the various translation projects got underway in Spain and in Southern Europe, it became obvious that Christian as well as Jewish philosophy had much to gain and to question by the enormous ...