Some believe that when a person dies nothing remains that death is the end of personality Others believe in the continuity of life That the present incarnation is only a link in the chain of one s ent ...

For years, the alleged words of ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle purporting to define excellence as a practice have circulated on the internet. "We're what we repeatedly do," the supposed quote ...

The ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle (384-322 BC) believed that the bear was the only animal that could survive in the frigid north — indeed, our word "arctic" is derived from arctos, which ...

According to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Aristotle credited Thales for being the first to question the natural world’s “causes and principles,” which was both the basis for philosophy and ...

The famous Greek philosopher was the one also taught 13-year-old Alexander the Great in ethics and politics, which laid Alexander’s significant theoretical of his later conquest of the world.

Kabbalah is a Jewish mystical tradition whose most profound influence is Greek philosophy, particularly the ideas of Neoplatonism, Gnosticism and Aristotelianism. With its roots in ancient Jewish ...

Ancient Greek philosophers debated the Milky Way’s nature, with some attributing it to celestial fires and others viewing it as a dense cluster of distant stars. Credit: Ale RaFlo, CC BY-SA 4.0 via ...

Pictures of honeybees show up in prehistoric cave paintings, one stretching back 8,000 years in Spain. The ancient Egyptians were among the first to domesticate bees, and apiarists have kept ...

Of course, it was much further back in time – more than 2,000 years ago – that humanity first understood the true shape of our planet. Greek philosopher Pythagoras proposed that the Earth was ...

The Neoplatonist philosopher Hermias of Alexandria, in his commentary on Plato’s Phaedrus, refers to Pherecydes’ cosmological ideas as a significant departure from traditional Hesiodic and Homeric ...