Today, Think Tank asks about Benjamin Franklin, America’s founding grandfather ... it under the influence of Condorce (sp) the French philosopher who was an abolitionist and who was a great ...

Benjamin Franklin was born in Boston on this day in history, Jan. 17, 1706. He achieved fame in Philadelphia and won the ...

Ever prescient, John Adams rightly predicted that Benjamin Franklin would forever occupy ... nobility, clergy, and philosophers, as well as plebeians, to such a degree that there was scarcely ...

In Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle gives this example of how the process works: “By abstaining from pleasures we become ...

Occultism and nation-building have been strangely intertwined, particularly in the gestation of America, writes Ed Simon ...

As he left the Constitutional Convention in 1787, Ben Franklin is said to have been ... that always tramples individual rights. Wilson and philosopher John Dewey declared the state’s job is ...

Born two centuries apart, Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) and Walter Elias Disney (1901-1966), each profoundly impacted ...

Playing Benjamin Franklin is Douglas’s first attempt ... “It’s my new faith now,” Douglas says of Stoicism, praising the philosophy for its emphasis on probity, character and emotional ...

PM, Professor Amedeo Arena from Federico II will deliver a lecture at the Italian Cultural Institute of New York, titled “The ...

Underpinning this ideal is a minimal standard for democratic competence, according to two UB philosophers. Understanding what ... A passerby, Mrs. Powel, asked Benjamin Franklin if the founders had ...

During his time in France, Smith counted as his contemporaries Benjamin Franklin and the philosophers David Hume and Voltaire. Smith published his most important work, "An Inquiry into the Nature ...

Ian Faul, a junior majoring in both psychology and philosophy and minoring in French ... graduating from both New Orleans ...