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.

What Boethius described was no symptom of carceral derangement; the lady was his metaphor for the power of philosophy to breathe life back into a deadened soul. With luck, you are not reading this ...

Dating of the document and the discovery its literary nature subsequently led UNESCO to declare it Europe’s oldest book. The Derveni ... of evidence about Greek philosophy and religion to ...

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 ...

The epigraph to the book is a quote about chess from Wittgenstein ... Russell deplored the idea, and thought it was taking philosophy in terrible directions.” As well as arguing Wittgenstein ...

A new book by the British cultural journalist Dorian Lynskey chronicles our centuries-old obsession with doomsday scenarios.

In other words: If it feels good, do it. Aristippus was a student of Socrates who founded a minor school of philosophy called Cyrenaicism. As Cyrenaic thinking evolved, it centered on two ideas.