Western philosophy has been described as “a series ... of causes unknown—rumors include food poisoning, self-asphyxiation, deadly fever, and old age. He asked that his body not be buried ...

When Socrates argued for self-knowledge over knowledge, he made the same turn as the Upanishads. The student of Western philosophy might be reminded of Parmenides (c. 515-c.440 BCE), who was still ...

We believe that much of western European philosophy, from ancient Greece to the present, has gone catastrophically wrong, pushing a worldview that justifies practices that will be seen in the ...

The Milesian School was based in Miletus and produced three great thinkers who were the pioneers of philosophy in ancient ...

‘The Great History of Western Philosophy’ Courtesy of International Film Festival Rotterdam By the way, Mickey doesn’t look his usual happy self in The Great History of Western Philosophy.

Western philosophers have come under criticism for their positions on the matter. These self-proclaimed beacons of morality and ethics have either condoned war crimes, ethnic cleansing ...

Not many people know about the birthplace of Western philosophy and science. This is a territory in Western Anatolia (modern-day Turkey) called Ionia. It took its name from Ion—the legendary ...

Jimmy Martin’s paper "Williams and Cusk on Technologies of the Self" has been accepted for a special issue ... October 4 - Ashley Atkins, Philosophy, Western Michigan University, “Race and the ...

It’s a lovely, empathetic book — perfect to explore in this monthly Working On It column, where we consider books that might fall under the category of self-help. Setiya uses philosophers ...