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Diogenes of Sinope, a beggar who lived on the streets of Athens in the fourth century B.C.E., has been hailed as the progenitor of performance art, an inspiration for the Occupy movement, and, by the ...

THE subject is on the curriculum of many departments of philosophy — Filipino philosophy. Leonardo Mercado, an SVD missionary ...

“I am like the midwife in that I cannot myself give birth to wisdom … The many admirable truths which [my students] bring to birth have been discovered by themselves from within.” Thus Socrates ...

We’re at the New York Philosophy Club, a free weekly event that attracts hundreds of New Yorkers to ponder life’s greatest questions. The discussions last about an hour and a half, structured in three ...