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Seven hundred years of heroic humanists (and their enemies), from the acclaimed author of How to Live and At The Existentialist Cafe
The bestselling, prizewinning ...
The second-century Greek physician Galen - the most famous doctor in antiquity after Hippocrates - is a central figure in Western medicine. A talented doctor, surgeon, writer ...
What is a good life, and how is it related to a happy one? What are virtues, and how do they affect the nature of ...
Distraction isn't a new problem. We're also not the first to complain about how hard it is to concentrate. Early Christian monks beat ...
If you've ever wanted to know more about the power of 'P', the hypnotic rhythm of anapestic tetrameter, or how to change the mood ...
Knowledge is power. Time is money. Justice is blind.
Western civilisation is a powerful brand, and full of accepted wisdoms like these that we rarely ...
How do I know I am the same person I was yesterday? What will happen if I die tonight? Do you see exactly the same ...
The "greatest psychologist of the spirit since St. Augustine" (Gregory R. Beabout), Soren Kierkegaard is renowned for such richly imagined philosophical works as Fear and ...
A panoramic history of rules in the Western world.
Rules order almost every aspect of our lives. They set our work hours, dictate how we ...
The death of Socrates may be the most famous unsolved murder in history. Set during the Peloponnesian War, this narrative solves that mystery, revealing for ...
If we want to be true atheists, do we have to begin with a religious edifice and undermine it from within?
Slavoj Zizek has long ...
As it was in Anna Karenina, Madame Bovary, and Othello, so it is in life. Most forms of private vice and public evil are kindled ...
Misinformation is one of the twenty-first century's greatest challenges, a peril to democracy, peace, science, and public health. Yet we lack a clear understanding ...
Why does it always seem like the elevator is going down when you need to go up? Is it really true that 0.99999 . . . with ...
A Platonic evangelist's lectures on the good life.
Maximus of Tyre, active probably in the latter half of the second century AD, was a ...