In recent decades, critical thinking about the “liveliness” of the natural world has gained momentum. Anthropologists and ...

And struck out, a back-stroke, as far as he could go.

The Upanishads and the Bhagavad Gita: ancient Indian texts that challenge Western categories, yet influenced the course of ...

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The German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) pursued two main themes in his work, one now familiar, even commonplace in modernity, the other still under-appreciated, often ignored. The ...

What’s the purpose of philosophy? Alfred North Whitehead characterized it as a series of footnotes to Plato. You can see his point. On the surface, we don’t seem to have progressed much in the two and ...

According to conventional wisdom, religions are systems of belief. Religious people are “believers”. Christians believe that Jesus rose from the dead; Muslims believe that Mohammed was the final ...

Virgil’s description of the behaviour of bees in Georgics: Book IV is sometimes taken as a comment on the civil war just coming to an end when the poem was written. The Roman belief in the spontaneous ...

Germany enjoys the reputation of having confronted its Nazi past with impressive forthrightness, its cities filled with memorials to the victims of the Holocaust. But when it came to bringing former ...

The Upanishads and the Bhagavad Gita: ancient Indian texts that challenge Western categories, yet influenced the course of ...