Siris

Introduction Opening Passage: In the city-states of Tuscany the citizens--Popolani--businessmen, master craftsmen and the professional c...

The original idea for Gunsmoke at CBS was a crossing of mysteries and Westerns: Philip Marlowe in the Old West. The idea morphed a bit in d...

Without supposing that there is, inborn in the human soul, a whole system of notions and forms of thought—a whole world, in short, of all po...

* Boswell's Postcards from a Hanging * Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Philosophers ( ht ) * Tasneem Zehra Husain, On Optimal P...

Philip of Opus was, according to gossip left us by Diogenes Laertius in his Life of Plato , a student in Plato's Academy. When Plato die...

One thing that I've become more sure of as time goes on is that most people are incompetent critics of literary works. There are lots of...

Book X The Athenian proposes that the greatest respect for law is closely connected with belief in gods. This raises the problem of those ...