By Anne Siebels Peterson Aristotle did not merely engage widely in natural science. He articulated the distinctive methods and principles…
Tag: ancient philosophy
The way we think and approach life nowadays is rooted in Greek and Latin antiquity. There is where the belief…
Greed is clearly unjust, but is it foolish? In Book 1 of Plato’s Republic, Thrasymachus defends the value of injustice…
Even as strides toward gender equality have been made in the last century, the notion that gender is a binary…
Does ethics need religion? Do we need to believe in God to be good? These are standard questions in moral…
Thomas Nail writes about Venus as the desire of gods and men in Lucretius’ De Rerum Natura. She is not only the external object of desire of the other gods and of men; she is the desire itself.