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In this class, we're exploring Aristotle's ideas of theoretical and practical wisdom, heading on perilous Atlantic sea voyages, and asking about what it means not just to know stuff, but also to act wisely.
Jing Jiang is one of the earliest women in Chinese recorded history to engage in philosophical debate.
Parmenides is one of the most elusive and enigmatic of all early Greek philosophers. Could he really have been arguing that nothing ever changed?
The philosopher Anaximander was born in the trading port of Miletus in 610 BCE. His philosophy explored questions of creation and destruction in nature.
A story from a 13th century Persian text about music, harmony, philosophy, catatonic animals, and the beef between Plato and Aristotle.
Gārgī Vācaknavī was a philosopher who is said to have lived in India around 700 BCE, and whose skill in debate was legendary.
John Gray's Feline Philosophy, Daoism and a medieval Chinese debate on the virtues of cats.
Guan Zhong was one of China's earliest named philosophers. A sharp political operator, he is associated in particular with the philosophy of legalism.
Pythagoras was the first philosopher to talk about 'philosophia', or 'the love of wisdom.'
Heraclitus's philosophy was based on the idea that the world is in continual flux. He is famous above all for his mysterious comment that 'everything flows.'
One of history's earliest named philosophers was from Africa. He lived 4500 years ago in Egypt, and his name was Ptahhotep.
Bulgaria's second city has a reputation for doing things its own way.