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Plato's Apology , the defense speech of Socrates, is, of course, perhaps the single Socrates-themed work that everyone should read somet...

Farewell by Lady Caroline Lamb 'Farewell.' Ah! frown not thus-nor turn from me, I must not-dare not-look on thee; Too well tho...

An ethics that is concerned more with extensive tangible effects of giving than with the general habit of giving can in the long run have le...

There are two times in the Platonic corpus in which we seem to be promised a dialogue we do not have. The first is the sequence Timaeus-Crit...

Statesman (once often known by the Latinized name Politicus ) is obviously closely connected with the Sophist , and what is said of one can...

Today is the feast of St. Charbel (or Sharbel) Makhlouf. He was the son of a mule-driver who used to sneak away to pray at the monastery of ...

Free as life and the free-formed spirit itself, ever new, wonderful, versatile, and infinitely varied, both in internal structure and extern...