Whether our Western political systems are true democracies or republics can be answered by examining ancient Greek philosophy ...

It struck me that not so far out of view from the cockpit of our small boat was the whole province in which Greek philosophy had begun. Those gray-blue masses of island and mainland hid within ...

Imagine an Ancient Greek philosopher like Pyrrho, so untouched by this life’s problems that he could even carry on debating ...

Marble statues of the Greek philosophers Socrates, right, and Plato sit in front of the Athens Academy. Socrates tried and failed to teach Alcibiades, a controversial political and military leader ...

Ancient Greek philosophers used paradoxes for all sorts of reasons, from sharpening their dialectical skills and showing philosophical opponents were talking nonsense to serious philosophical inquiry ...

The most obvious difference was the intimate relation between Greek science and Greek philosophy. This was due to the fact that Greek science was originally a department of Greek philosophy.

But eating meat was associated with religious observance too and there was a sophisticated debate between philosophers about ...