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'No role is so well suited to philosophy as the one you happen to be in right now.' - Marcus Aurelius
The Stoics' unique blend of ...
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A superb new edition of Epictetus's famed handbook on Stoicism--translated by one of the world's leading authorities on Stoic philosophy
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Do you consider yourself stoical? Do a bit of meditation or mindfulness practice? Buddhism and Stoicism have a lot to offer modern readers seeking the ...
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There has been a bad-tempered quarrel between defenders and critics of religion in recent years. Both sides have expressed themselves acerbically because there is a ...
A renowned philosopher challenges long-held views on just wars, ethical conduct during war, why wars occur, how they alter people and societies, and more
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Samuel Johnson was a critic, an essayist, a poet and a biographer. He was also, famously, the compiler of the first good English dictionary, published ...
How can we think of life in its dual expression, matter and experience, the living and the lived? Philosophers and, more recently, social scientists have ...
In Ancient Greece, when the philosopher Socrates was asked to sum up what all philosophical commandments could be reduced to, he replied: `Know yourself'. Self-knowledge ...
Classics ought to be obsolete. Few today believe that learning Greek and Latin is the best training for the mind, or that the study of ...
The Philosophy of Science Fiction: Henri Bergson and the Fabulations of Philip K. Dick explores the deep affinity between two seemingly quite different thinkers, in ...
Something strange is happening in our knowledge economy: organisations everywhere are encouraging smart people to do stupid things.
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The samurai of Japan, who were the country's military elite from medieval times to the end of the nineteenth century, were synonmous with valor ...
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