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Saint Mary’s College will offer a wide variety of courses next semester, including a course on fabric printing and one on ...

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

From the Library of Alexandria to the lost works of Plato, the world is littered with ancient writings containing long-lost secrets. Credits: Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons From the Library of ...

Hannah Arendt solicited funding to write a book. “You may remember that more than 10 years ago I published, under the title ...

Socrates worried that students would lose their memory while relying on these written symbols (letters). They would not be able to discern the truth and might be poor learners. Worse, they would be ...

Mukherjee defends Nehru’s historical vision as essential for understanding India’s past and present. But his secular ...

Some of the history is understandably needed to give context to Socrates, but often it feels as though Robertson is writing ...

Plato’s Philebus is a dialogue about the value of pleasure, knowledge, wisdom, and reason. Which should be pursued for their ...

Some of the history is understandably needed to give context to Socrates, but often it feels as though Robertson is writing two separate books for two different audiences. The explanation of ...