Diotima, the female philosopher in Plato's Symposium, has puzzled historians for centuries with her theory of love and beauty ...

Pherecydes of Syros, a pioneering philosopher and tutor of Pythagoras, blended myth and metaphysics, shaping early Greek thought.

For one brief moment in the preface of his latest book Human Society in Ethics and Politics, the old philosopher gets set to floor all previous Russells with one haymaking swing. He quotes with ...