In his book, "Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future," Friedrich Nietzsche famously wrote, “He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster.
We live in anxious times. But there is a long tradition of philosophical thought that addresses the problem of anxiety.
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Charred by the flames of a funeral pyre, the Derveni Papyrus has proved to be a fascinating—and confounding—artifact ...
Book Review: 'Open Socrates' Shows Why Philosophy Isn't a Spectator Sport During a time when many are complaining about divisiveness in politics and in society, it seems counterintuitive for a ...
Callard’s book is intellectually challenging and hardly a simple crash course on Socrates, but the payoff is worth the time and effort put into rethinking approaches to philosophy and life.