Reflections by late-Roman Stoic philosophers like Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, and Seneca, offer a remarkably contemporary ...

Socrates was a philosopher warrior, exemplifying courage, endurance and the pursuit of virtue through action as well as thought.

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In A Nutshell A philosopher at UC San Diego argues that the near-universal view in academic philosophy that wrongdoers cannot have a right to be forgiven: is wrong. His central argument: promises ...

Sophie Oluwole (1935-2018) was a Nigerian scholar and the first woman to earn a PhD in philosophy in her country. She not only placed Nigeria's rich Yoruba philosophical tradition on the intellectual ...

Michael Sandel, the Harvard professor, has been predicting this political moment for decades. We called him to discuss where ...

Behind every breakthrough, there is a quest for truth. This desire is wired into humans—an insatiable curiosity about the ...

Chrysippus, the Greek philosopher who allegedly died laughing at his own joke, remains a figure of fascination for his ...

The Ask a Philosopher table appears daily at Suburban Station this week while the American Philosophical Association conference is in Philadelphia. Ian Olasov (left), a part-time philosophy professor ...

The renowned Islamic scholar leaves a lasting legacy of authored works, institutions and educational reforms.