Writer A.J. Jacobs has transformed a digital picture frame into a philosophical life coach, creating what he calls a "Wisdom ...

This year marks the 1,500th anniversary of the death of one of the most influential writers the West has ever seen. Yet nowadays Boethius (c. 480-524 AD) is barely read, and his literary and ...

The experience inspired him to write “The Uses of Natural History,” and to articulate a philosophy that put naturalism at the center of intellectual life in a technologically chaotic age ...

The Cambridge Companion to Hegel and Nineteenth-Century Philosophy, edited by Frederick C. Beiser.Cambridge University Press, 2008 Cambridge, Massachusetts. Paperback (ISBN-13: 9780521539388), $32.99.

Philosophical Shift: ‘An Extraordinary Hegel Renaissance’ Is Under Way. Two new books argue that Hegel was hardly the arch-conservative and proto-fascist that liberal thinkers such as Isaiah Berlin ...

Our mission – the Dark Renaissance – is strategic and philosophical. At a personal level, it relates to a lifelong obsession with the philosophy of technology, and an intense awareness of the ...

The Renaissance tends to be thought of as the wellspring of high culture in the West, giving us humanistic inquiry, vernacular literature and linear perspective, but it was also an era of disaster ...

In a deeply philosophical observation, Shri Dhankhar asserted, “Knowledge resides beyond manuscripts. It lives in communities, in embodied practices, in the intergenerational transmission of wisdom.” ...

Luke Slattery writes about the death of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, a Renaissance philosopher who, some think, was murdered by the Medicis in 1494.