Adler's philosophical teaching arises from his conviction that thinkers of Greek antiquity and the Middle Ages, especially Aristotle and Saint Thomas Aquinas, had focused their considerations on commonsense cognition of the found world, while thinkers of modern times had detached th...
Confucianism - the teachings of Confucius emphasizing love for humanity; high value given to learning and to devotion to family (including ancestors); peace; justice; influenced the traditional culture of China deconstruction, deconstructionism - a philosophical theory of criticism (usually of literature...
The Art of Living: The Classical Manual on Virtue, Happiness, and Effectivenessdistills the teachings of Epictetus, offering practical wisdom on the pursuit of inner peace, resilience, and ethical living in the face of life's challenges.
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But we're left with a kind of weird puzzle here: if (and it is a big if) Burnyeat get Strauss' initiation practice right, and so has properly understood Strauss' teachings, how come it fails to work its magic on Burnyeat, who is singularly unpersuaded? (Persuade and its cognates are ...
Medieval Jewish philosophers, like their Islamic and Christian contemporaries, were concerned to harmonize the tenets of Judaism with ancient Greek philosophic teachings that held sway at successive periods of Jewish history. Confronting problems in which there seemed to be a conflict between philosophical...
The teachings that are being preached from pulpits today are conforming to the world. This means that Christians are turning their backs on God. Some do not realize they are doing so. Even worse many believe they are preaching the true gospel. But they are so distorted a misleading academia...
My goal is to apply philosophy (theoretical concepts and teachings) to everyday scenarios both on and off the mats. I am a student of the ancient philosophers of the Western world, including Plato, Aristotle, Epictetus, and Cicero, as well as modern philosophers such as Hume, Locke, and ...
(Kessinger, 1997);The Pythagorean Sourcebook and Library, ed. by Kenneth Sylvan Guthrie (Phanes, 1991); Dominic J. O'Meara,Pythagoras Revived: Mathematics and Philosophy in Late Antiquity(Oxford, 1991); and John Strohmeier and Peter Westbrook,Divine Harmony: The Life and Teachings of Pythagoras...
One of the more interesting elements ofteaching at Stonehillwas explaining Protestantism to a student body composed largely of ethnic Catholics. I remember giving a lecture on the history of Protestantism and having a student ask, “But what do Protestantsbelieve?” It was a great question, for ...