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 ...

It runs deeply through the Western outlook, hailed and condemned in equal measures. For a corrective, look to Confucius ...

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 ...

Perspectives on Western Culture is a year-long ... students begin by encountering two "spiritual eruptions": the rise of Greek philosophy, and the Judeo-Christian experience of God's self-revelation ...

‘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.

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 ...

Philosophy has always been marked by its self-conscious concern with the activity of reasoning ... within Classical Indian philosophy, in Islamic and Western philosophy of the Middle Ages, through to ...

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 ...