Diotima, the female philosopher in Plato's Symposium, has puzzled historians for centuries with her theory of love and beauty ...

For ancient Greek philosopher Socrates, the soul lives in the ideal realm, as it is eternal, unchanging, and survives the ...

The Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy was founded in 1978 by Professor Robert Hahn at Brandeis University under the name of "The Greater Boston Colloquium for Ancient Philosophy." Initially ...

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

Donald J. Robertson's 'How to Think Like Socrates' is easier than slogging through Plato and multiple volumes of ancient ...

Vegetarianism wasn’t common in the ancient world. But it did have some ... too and there was a sophisticated debate between philosophers about eating animals. We know this from Porphry’s ...

The lessons of Socrates have never really gone out of style, but if there's ever a perfect time to revisit the ancient philosopher, now is it. In "How to Think Like Socrates: Ancient Philosophy as a ...

The lessons of Socrates have never really gone out of style, but if there’s ever a perfect time to revisit the ancient ...

She was the daughter of the renowned philosopher Pythagoras, founder of an influential philosophical and religious sect, and ...

In brief, the transition process can be depicted and traced over time as a U-shaped curve that goes through four distinct ...