THE study of the history of Greek philosophy requires no defence and, fortunately, little encouragement. Confessedly our intellectual culture can be traced to Greek origin. The subject is so ...

This week we shall be considering the ancient philosophy of Stoicism, which taught the importance of accepting the evils of life calmly, self-control, making all decisions with reason and, above ...

Melissa Lane, the Class of 1943 Professor of Politics, has been awarded the Journal of the History of Philosophy's 2024 Book Prize for "Of Rule and Office: Plato's Ideas of the Political" (Princeton ...

John Cooper, the Henry Putnam University Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus, and renowned interpreter of ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, died at Penn Medicine Princeton Medical Center on Aug. 8 ...

Xenophanes was the ancient Greek philosopher who boldly challenged traditional views of the gods and questioned divine ...

Indigenous Fellow - Assistant Professor in Philosophy and History, Bond University Zhuangzi – also known as Zhuang Zhou or Master Zhuang – was a Chinese philosopher who lived around the 4th ...

Selections from the author’s satirical treatments of mythology, history, philosophy, and rhetoric and/or from the fantasy called A True Story. Lucian’s place in the Second Sophistic. Prerequisites: ..

In fact, long before the Ancient Greeks built their citadels and set out on heroic expeditions across the Mediterranean, long before the glory of the pharaohs, the region of Mesopotamia, between the ...

Humans Ancient Herculaneum scroll piece revealed by AI – here's what it says. A Greek philosopher’s musings on pleasure, contained in ancient papyrus scrolls buried by Mount Vesuvius’s ...

Business Philosophy of Bai Gui Bai Gui, a remarkable merchant in ancient China (463 BC - 385 BC), was praised as the “Father of Business”. He served as a minister of the State of Wei.