It is immeasurably intriguing that Alexander, the ancient world’s greatest conqueror, was taught by Aristotle, the great philosopher.

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Heraclitus was the ancient Greek philosopher who challenged the world through his beliefs in constant change, unity of ...

“I almost worship him as if he were a god. I have never felt such an extravagant admiration for anybody.” So the 22-year-old Bertrand Russell wrote to his fiancée Alys Pearsall Smith in November 1894.

NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with author Augustine Sedgewick about his new book, "Fatherhood," which illustrates as a collective portrait of emblematic fathers throughout history from Aristotle to ...

A Marxist-turned-Catholic who denounced individualism, he provoked and inspired fellow thinkers and gained a degree of popularity unusual for a moral philosopher.

Tucked away in silence, this abandoned house reveals the life of a woman who thought deeply—and perhaps suffered deeply too. She was a philosopher, surrounded by her writings, but also lived in ...

The reactionary blogger’s call for a monarch to rule the country once seemed like a joke. Now the right is ready to bend the knee.

Aristotle indeed held views—some of them inconsistent with libertarianism—about the need for individuals to live within a political community in order to flourish; but, to reiterate, it is individuals ...

Did Aristotle say excellence is a habit? "We're what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit" may have been attributed to Aristotle to lend it more gravitas.

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We’ve named our family cats after philosophers, starting with Socrates, then Aristotle — and finally Zena after the philosopher, Zeno.