Pombo explains at the RAE his relationship with the Spanish language, philosophy, irony, and the idea of fragility he senses ...

Held as a part of the Villanova Philosophy Department’s Speaker’s Series, Villanova Ph.D. alumnus Michael Shaw (‘06) returned ...

"On one hand, we have Aristotle's theory of Form and Matter, which proposed that everything in the natural world is made up ...

To make a serious comparison between Confucianism and ancient Greek philosophy, one must look further back, to the many ...

Not many people know about the birthplace of Western philosophy and science. This is a territory in Western Anatolia (modern-day Turkey) called Ionia. It took its name from Ion—the legendary king of ...

The PPE major allows students to study systematically some of the most important social, ethical, economic, and political problems that our contemporary societies face. It offers a highly ...

Aristotle’s sayings on tyranny ring true today, allowing people to recognize tyranny if they know what to look for. Aristotle lived from 384 to 322 BC and was born in northeastern Greece in a town ...

In Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle gives this example of how the process works: “By abstaining from pleasures we become temperate, and it is when we have become so that we are most able to abstain from ...

The Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies plays an active role in several university-wide, national, and international research and educational consortiums — in addition to housing the ...

This is where Aristotle’s philosophy offers a valuable framework. Aristotle, one of the greatest thinkers in Western philosophy, was deeply concerned with ethics, purpose, and rationality.

Almost every module has a traditional essay as the main assessment. Our students will still write detailed analyses of the justification of belief, the nature of the self, the relative merits of ...