The Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy was founded in 1978 by Professor Robert Hahn at Brandeis University under the name of "The Greater Boston Colloquium for Ancient Philosophy." Initially ...

Philosophy is an ancient discipline, which probably began as early as human civilization, that sought knowledge of all things on earth and in heaven. Knowledge of natural things and their causes lead ...

Stoicism was one of ancient Greece's philosophical movements founded by Zeno of Citium in Athens in the early 3rd century BC ...

Philosophy books have historically ignited journeys of intellectual awakening, offering pathways to deeper understanding and self-reflection. From ancient philosophers like Plato and Aristotle to ...

The contributors examine philosophy as it entered literature ... Accompanying the essays are a 50-page list of works by ancient authors, an invaluable 200-page bibliography, an extensive index locorum ...

Sophists in ancient Greece were professional educators and intellectuals. Their teachings emphasized public speaking and ...

Ancient philosophers such as Plato asked conceptual questions such as "What is justice?" as the basis of philosophy. The statements, "That action is wrong," or, "Knowledge is justified true belief," ...

What we call cynicism today is a distant and desolate relative of Cynicism, a philosophy founded in ancient Greece that flourished under the Roman Empire. As a school of thought, it has as much in ...

Plato, however, so prolific a writer, so profoundly original in his thought, and so colossal an influence on the later history of philosophy, that it has not been possible to confine him to one volume ...

A survey of major figures and theories from Greek and Roman antiquity to the Christian, Jewish and Islamic world of the Middle Ages, this course offers a critical introduction to philosophic debates ...