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The eye of an animal is a masterpiece of evolutionary adaptation.

As had been anticipated, the new-old economy minister, Luis Caputo, unveiled a first package of measures that concretises the first step of the savage

As I walked through the book room at the Society of Biblical Literature conference this weekend, I drooled over the vast array of books. Tables after

Mary Renault’s Theseus is a short, cocky chancer, determined to turn his deficiencies to his gain. It’s not hard to...

Our Immortal Soul escapes the body's death. Once the soul escapes the body, it continues to live on with other souls in the realm of eternal ideas. Well, that's what Plato tells us Socrates taught us. Does this give you hope? Our Immortal Soul escapes the body's death. Really?

Emilia says, “I will play the swan, and die in music.” (Othello, v. 2.) Swans (Cygninae) are weighty, white long necked birds that live along the s...

A Florida Republican says Socrates would be canceled today. The philosopher faced a different fate: Execution. Hannah Knowles, Timothy Bella © Bill OLeary/Washington, D.C. Contractors give a spring cleaning to Robert Aitkens statue from 1935 of Socrates, located on the Pennsylvania Avenue side of the National Archives, on April 4, 2017. (Photo by Bill OLeary/The Washington Post) Florida state Rep. Anthony Sabatini (R) waded into the online fray around “cancel culture” w...

© George Fournaris, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons Stoa of Attalus night view, Greece. A trio of Stoics from Ancient Greece offer philosophical opposition to todays turbo capitalism in this excerpt from Raging Twenties, Great Power Politics Meets Techno-Feudalism . Stoicism, in Ancient Greece, was pop culture — reaching out in a way that the sophisticated Platonic and Aristotelian schools could only dream of. Like the Epicureans and the Skeptics, the Stoics owed a lot to Socrates — who al...

  For many college graduates, their careers advance on an obvious path of their major. For Kevin Gin ’07, a philosophy major during his time at Messiah University, his career had a more unique path. Gin, a software engineer at Google, first fell in love with philosophy at Messiah University, but he redirected his career focus to computer programming by the age of 30. Gin exemplifies what it means to have courage to try new things with an open mind.    During his first year at Messiah, Gin ...

The Good Men Project Become a Premium Member We have pioneered the largest worldwide conversation about what it means to be a good man in the 21st century. Your support of our work is inspiring and invaluable. Maxims From the Delphic Oracle Socrates, stoicism, and the philosophy of Apollo. Upon a column once standing at the entrance (pronaos) of the Temple of Apollo in Delphi, two famous maxims were inscribed: “Know thyself” (gnothi seauton) and “Nothing in excess” (meden agan). In Plat...