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Al-Andalus, the Iberian territory ruled by Islam from the eighth to the fifteenth centuries, was home to a flourishing philosophical culture among ...
View full detailsAl-Andalus, the Iberian territory ruled by Islam from the eighth to the fifteenth centuries, was home to a flourishing philosophical culture among ...
View full detailsWhat is it like to be a Westerner teaching political philosophy in an officially Marxist state? Why do Chinese sex workers sing karaoke with their ...
View full detailsMartin Heidegger is perhaps the twentieth century's greatest philosopher, and his work stimulated much that is original and compelling in modern th...
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View full detailsTimeless advice on how to be a successful leader in any field The ancient biographer and essayist Plutarch thought deeply about the leadership qual...
View full detailsIn his essay “On Anger” (De Ira), the Roman Stoic thinker Seneca (c. 4 BC–65 AD) argues that anger is the most destructive passion: “No plague has ...
View full detailsMarcus Cicero, Rome's greatest statesman and orator, was elected to the Roman Republic's highest office at a time when his beloved country was thre...
View full detailsHow to Win an Election is an ancient Roman guide for campaigning that is as up-to-date as tomorrow's headlines. In 64 BC when idealist Marcus Cicer...
View full detailsAll complex and large-scale societies are organized along certain hierarchies, but the concept of hierarchy has become almost taboo in the modern w...
View full detailsHobbes's extreme political views have commanded so much attention that they have eclipsed his work on language and mind, and on reasoning, personho...
View full detailsWhen it first appeared in 1979, Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature hit the philosophical world like a bombshell. In it, Richard Rorty argued that,...
View full detailsIn the Louvre museum hangs a portrait that is considered the iconic image of Rene Descartes, the great seventeenth-century French philosopher. And ...
View full detailsThe Epicureans, Skeptics, and Stoics practiced philosophy not as a detached intellectual discipline but as a worldly art of grappling with issues o...
View full detailstranslated by Eric Hutton This is the first complete, one-volume English translation of the ancient Chinese text Xunzi, one of the most extensive, ...
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