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 ...

Quote of the Day by Plato: Considered as one of the most important figures of the Ancient Greek world, Plato, the Athenian philosopher, was born around 428 B.C. He was of noble Athenian lineage on ...

Solon, counted as one of the 'Seven Sages of Greece' in ancient Greece, was a statesman who was active in 6th-century BC ...

More than 2,400 years later, his philosophy still questions whether endless accumulation can ever produce real satisfaction ...

Writing in a letter to his friend Lucilius around AD62, the Roman philosopher Seneca outlined two arguments for vegetarianism. The first argument came from a Roman philosopher called Sextius whom ...

While it’s not as central to our daily lives today, philosophy has played a role in advancing many of the world’s biggest developments. So it’s no surprise that ancient philosophers and some of the ...

The ancient Greek sage and philosopher Epictetus (c. 50-c. 120 CE) was born a slave, and his teachings about freedom and human dignity have echoed through the millennia—in the writings of Spinoza, ...

When we say “philosophy,” we usually think of aloof students, brooding hermits, or long-winded conversationalists. Auguste Rodin (1840–1917) may have had the first two in mind when he sculpted “The ...