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

In fact, Confucius himself is believed to have compiled the oldest existing collection of Chinese poetry. Titled Shi Jing, or ...

Political philosophy is a branch of philosophy that explores specific topics such as theories of governance, rights, justice, ...

Author Ryan Holiday explores the Stoic virtues of doing good, emphasizing that acting with integrity and making the right ...

'Water is the principle, the first of all things," said Thales of Miletus, who lived between 624 and 546 BC and is regarded ...

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 ...

With the inaugural World Conference of Classics set to open in Beijing on Thursday, scholars from around the globe are ...

The late István Mészáros analyzes political theories from the ancient Greek philosophers forward in Beyond Leviathan: ...

The founder of the Italian luxury brand and winner of WWD’s John B. Fairchild Honor quotes the great philosophers and works ...

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.