a compelling - case for Plutarch’s importance as a political thinker of the very first rank.' Paul Rahe - Hillsdale College, Michigan 'This is a marvellous guide for reading the Lives as a genre of ...

The essays in this volume provide the first comprehensive study of aporetic methodology among numerous major figures and influential schools, including the Presocratics, Plato, Aristotle, Plutarch ...

Plutarch tells the story of the meeting between ... For Diogenes, self-denial was more than a philosophy. It was a way of life. He never tired of finding opportunities to point out his own folly ...

The Department of Philosophy at Saint Louis University is distinguished by a long-standing tradition of pluralism both of methodology and interest. In recent years, we have gained national and ...

Two millennia past, Plutarch of Chaeronea, a luminary of Greek philosophy within the Roman Empire, penned a contemplative ...

Commissions do not affect our editors' opinions or evaluations. Online philosophy programs help students learn to understand the world and ask important questions about the nature of existence.

Philosophy is an ancient discipline, which probably began as early as human civilization, that sought knowledge of all things on earth and in heaven. Knowledge of natural things and their causes lead ...

The worry is that our remembrance will whittle down Jones’s vast career—spanning sixty years and encompassing more than two ...

The M.A. program in Philosophy at Boston College offers students the opportunity to deepen their knowledge of the history of philosophy and to work on topics as diverse as, for instance, Aristotelian ...

I think we can glean some unique insights into this topic by examining it through the prism of mythology and philosophy. Sisyphus, a figure in Greek Mythology, was punished by the gods and ...

The Department of Philosophy offers an undergraduate degree as well as several minors and immersions that can be paired with most other undergraduate degree programs at RIT. Through studying ...