In an age dominated by technology, market competition, and rapid specialization, philosophy is often dismissed as impractical or irrelevant. University departments shrink, students are encouraged to ...

Prologue In the early 1970s, I wrote my Ph.D. thesis on Adamantios Koraes at the University of Wisconsin. I read his ...

The “Symposium” describes a dinner party of ancient Athenians, including Socrates, the teacher of Plato, and Aristophanes, a prize-winning writer of comic plays. Each guest gives a speech about love.

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Plato, a pivotal ancient Greek thinker, profoundly shaped Western philosophy. A student of Socrates, Plato established the ...

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It was like many suburban neighborhoods that sprouted up across America in the 1960s and ’70s. Tom Purcell hosts his syndicated column, humor books and funny videos of his dog, Thurber, at TomPurcell.

The Vogues taught me that it’s a “Five O’Clock World” and not to lose sight of life’s fleeting pleasures. Bobby Sherman ...