The Milesian School was based in Miletus and produced three great thinkers who were the pioneers of philosophy in ancient ...
Daniel W. Graham, the A. O. Smoot Professor of Philosophy at Brigham Young University, has received a contract from Cambridge University Press to produce a bilingual text of the Presocratic ...
A work by a ‘lost’ Ancient Greek philosopher has been rediscovered, written on a 2,000-year-old papyrus fragment found in Cairo. The fragile document contains 30 previously unknown verses by ...
The dichotomy between reality and appearance, and the devaluation of appearance, is rooted in pre-Socratic philosophy. Just as Plato leant upon Heraclitus’ flux for his conception of the sensible ...
Diogenes of Sinope, a beggar who lived on the streets of Athens in the fourth century B.C.E., has been hailed as the progenitor of performance art, an inspiration for the Occupy movement, and, by the ...
On the night of the recent blackout in New York, Chris Phillips left his sublet apartment and wandered into nearby Washington Square, where hundreds had gathered to share their anxieties in the dark.