“It is a paradox that we encounter so much internal noise when we first try to sit in silence. It is a paradox that ...

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Mithraism’s adoption and integration of Stoic virtues is compelling and noteworthy. These virtues not only shaped the ...

The time is around 90 CE, and Plutarch of Chaeronea in Greece is travelling when news reaches him of the death of his ...

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Luc de Brabandere is a corporate philosopher. His latest book, The Art of Thinking in a Digital World: Be Logical, Be Creative, Be Critical (Peter Lang International), puts the history of thought into ...

“The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher, as equally false; and by the magistrate, as equally useful. And ...

Kanan Purkayastha explains how Werner Heisenberg’s 1925 paper turned the quantum theory of the early 1900s into the quantum mechanics of today. Sara Asran explores the dynamics of identity online.

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Kant’s view is clearly that coercion is justifiable only when it’s necessary to prevent someone from hindering the freedom of action of others. That is the proper function of Recht, or coercively ...

Tallis in Wonderland The Possibility-Bearing Animal Raymond Tallis explores a twilight zone. There have been many ways in which philosophers have tried to characterise our distinc ...