It’s astonishing how relentlessly Western philosophy has strained ... Rationality and self-control, as philosophers underline again and again, give humans a value that squirrels lack (let ...

For one thing, pinning down the true self is increasingly difficult. Western philosophers have sought some pure and enduring touchstone of I-ness ever since Socrates began interrogating the ...

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 ...

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 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.

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 ...

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 ...