Philosophers have always wrestled with how love can be so morally important, yet so personal and even arbitrary.

In 399 BC, Socrates stood before a jury of 500 Athenian citizens, accused of undermining the state religion and introducing ...

By Hakeem JamiuThe concept of a city-state ruled by philosophers was first explored in Plato’s Republic written around 375 BC. Plato believed that those who naturally dominate society should be those ...

In the complex and often violent political arena of ancient Greece, ideals of civic engagement and self-determination mingled ...

117. "Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with ...

Best Mahatma Gandhi Quotes: Mahatma Gandhi, the Father of the Nation, is one of the most revered leaders in history. He was a lawyer, politician, social activist, and writer who dedicated his ...

Callard is a University of Chicago moral philosopher with a madcap streak, and a perpetually controversial figure for making offbeat public pronouncements and unconventional romantic choices, and ...

Agnes Callard doesn’t just admire Socrates, the philosopher forced by his fellow ... that she’s closely read his novels, which she quotes extensively even while flogging him for failed self ...

The TikTok generation is rediscovering thinkers both ancient and modern who can help them make sense of the world ...

They made Albert Camus’ novels The Stranger (1942) and The Plague (1947) bestsellers before and after the 2019 pandemic; they pass around quotes ... to take Socrates, the Greek philosopher ...

Cultivating an understanding of a range of central philosophical debates, as well as of the history of philosophy (ancient, modern and contemporary), all major areas of philosophy are available for ...