Writing in a letter to his friend Lucilius around AD62, the Roman philosopher Seneca outlined two arguments for vegetarianism ...
Diotima, the female philosopher in Plato's Symposium, has puzzled historians for centuries with her theory of love and beauty ...
Some ancient Greek and Roman philosophers supported vegetarianism. Killing animals for pleasure causes people to develop 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 ...
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 book ...
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 ...