If you’ve ever attended a high-energy seminar where a speaker yells, “unleash your greatness!” while pacing in an expensive suit reflective of poor fashion sense, congratulations – you’ve witnessed ...

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

According to Plato, love’s aim is not to complete us, but to inspire us to grow and become the best human being we can be.

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 “Open Socrates,” Agnes Callard argues for a way of being that sounds a lot like her own.

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 the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' ...

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 ...

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 ...