Chrysippus, the Greek philosopher who allegedly died laughing at his own joke, remains a figure of fascination for his ...

Famous philosophers like Socrates, Karl Marx, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Ayn Rand have challenged the way we consider the world and ...

Writing in a letter to his friend Lucilius around AD62, the Roman philosopher Seneca outlined two arguments for vegetarianism ...

Some ancient Greek and Roman philosophers supported vegetarianism. Killing animals for pleasure causes people to develop the ...

The fourth volume of Professor Guthrie's great history of Greek thought deals exclusively with Plato. Plato, however, so prolific a writer, so profoundly original in his thought, and so colossal an ...

Early Christianity engaged Hellenistic culture generally, and more specifically Greek philosophy, from the end of the first century on. We see bits and pieces of this in passages such as the ...

So why all this talk about Greek philosophers and their teachings? Well, it’s often said that throwing in a bit of Greek or Latin makes a speaker sound more intelligent. But as someone deeply ...

Chief among these qualities are the lucidity of the author's writing, the judiciousness of his opinions and the comprehensiveness of his treatment … Other historians of Greek philosophy have impressed ...

the Legacy and Relevance of a Greek Philosopher". Karalis elaborates on the topic in this interview he gave Themi Kallos. Aristotle (384-322 BC), together with his teacher Plato, is one of the ...