Siris

A purely verbal dispute is of course a dispute that arises solely from a misunderstanding about the meaning of words, where there is no diff...

Introduction Opening Passage: There are two different versions of The Master of Ballantrae , one of which, the original, jumps directly i...

It has always seemed to us truly extraordinary that Christians should have raised such a shriek of disgust at the "degrading" noti...

Now just as weariness of the body is dispelled by resting the body, so weariness of the soul must needs be remedied by resting the soul: and...

Today is the feast of St. Catherine of Alexandria, Virgin Martyr, patron saint of philosophers. She is one of the most popular virgin marty...

All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry. If we paused for a moment to examine the cheapest cant phrases that pass our lips every d...

To add to the point about the (or at least the major) form of traditional consensus gentium arguments involving a step concerned with what ...