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Aeon Ideas asks, who are the five greatest women philosophers? Nigel Warburton lists (deliberately restricting himself to the twentieth ce...

There is a maxim upon which as a foundation stone the little society of Calvario rests.... It is the following: "we must so earnestly t...

Summer by Christina Rossetti Winter is cold-hearted Spring is yea and nay, Autumn is a weather-cock Blown every way: Summer days ...

The Greek word eironeia originally meant something like a fake or fictional ignorance. Aristotle ( NE IV.7 1127a-1127b) uses it to describ...

Yesterday was the Feast of the Protomartyrs of Rome, so here's a description of them from a non-Christian source, Tacitus ( Annals 15.44...

Book XVI Book XVI gives us longer, more complicated analects; it has also occasionally been noticed by commentators that some of it explic...

This one is an adaptation of an old ballad. Judas Christ was looking to the heavens, looking with a sigh and frown, looking for the ti...