Famous philosophers like Socrates, Karl Marx, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Ayn Rand have challenged the way we consider the world and ...

In Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle gives this example of how the process works: “By abstaining from pleasures we become temperate, and it is when we have become so that we are most able to abstain from ...

Mor Segev argues that Aristotle thinks traditional religion is politically necessary because it prepares the ground for what he considers the pinnacle of human endeavor: attaining the knowledge of ...

It’s odds on that quoting Greek philosophy is something you’re doing on a regular basis. Many of the sayings we use daily were first coined by Aristotle (384-BC – 322 BC). His studies in ...

The great Greek philosopher, Aristotle, was one of the first. He thought that slavery was a natural thing and that human beings came in two types - slaves and non-slaves. For that some should rule ...

Held as a part of the Villanova Philosophy Department’s Speaker’s Series, Villanova Ph.D. alumnus Michael Shaw (‘06) returned ...