(THE CONVERSATION) Taylor Swift isn’t just a billionaire songwriter and performer. She’s also a philosopher. As a Swiftie and a philosopher, I’ve found that this claim surprises Swifties and ...

On my desk sits a popular history of science with a curious subtitle, all the more curious to myself because, besides being a physics teacher, I am a perennial student of the perennial philosophy — ...

"You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation." - Plato Philosophy is both familiar and mystifying. I think therefore I am, Tyranny of the Majority, Know ...

There is a phrase you are as likely to find in a serious philosophy text as you are in the wackiest self-help book: "Know thyself!" The phrase has a serious philosophical pedigree: By Socrates’ time, ...

Get Access To Every Broadway Story Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Philosophy is both familiar and mystifying. "I ...

“Know thyself” was inscribed on the ancient Greek temple at Delphi and is quoted approvingly by Socrates in the First Alcibiades. What is it to know oneself—to have self-knowledge? It is, at least, to ...

The Greek philosopher Socrates as imagined in this statue in Athens. It is made of white marble by sculputer Leonidas Drosis. Socrates is famous for saying, “The unexamined life is not worth living.” ...

There is a phrase you are as likely to find in a serious philosophy text as you are in the wackiest self-help book: "Know thyself!" The phrase has a serious philosophical pedigree: By Socrates’ time, ...

Know Thyself" Know thyself, I dutifully scribbled in my notebook " and then took a quick glance around. Nope, I hadnt tripped into Philosophy 101 on the way to the Career Center: the assembled ...