Tag: "ancient philosophy"

Thracymacus Buys A House

Plato’s astounding legendary lost dialogue is translated with an introductory note by Mark Cyzyk, Master of the College of Antiquities at the University of Vlastos.
[Issue 66: March/April 2008: Articles]

The Ancient Cynics: The First Environmentalists

Tim Madigan asks, why did the featherless biped cross the road?
[Issue 65: January/February 2008: Green Philosophy]

The Unthinkability of Philosophical Thoughts

Raymond Tallis thinks the deeply unthinkable, as hard as he can.
[Issue 64: November/December 2007: Tallis in Wonderland]

Who Started All This Philosophy Business?

Carl Murray reports on a heated argument in Hades.
[Issue 63: September/October 2007: Articles]

Dear Socrates

Having returned from the turn of the Fourth Century B.C. to the turn of the Twenty-First A.D., Socrates has eagerly signed on as a Philosophy Now columnist so that he may continue to carry out his divinely-inspired dialogic mission.
[Issue 48: October/November 2004: Dear Socrates]

Arête

Introducing our section on the nature of virtue, Philip Vassallo describes how the ancient conception of arête arose and developed.
[Issue 45: March/April 2004: The Virtues]

Phaedo

by Tim Chappell
[Issue 31: March/April 2001: Poetry]

The Epicurean Option

Dane Gordon on the friends of Epicurus.
[Issue 24: Summer 1999: Articles]

What’s New in… Ancient Philosophy

In the first of our ‘Overview’ series, Mark Daniels describes the latest work on the earliest philosophers.
[Issue 20: Spring 1998: Overview]

Pleasure Now

Dane Gordon on a forgotten philosopher who practiced what he preached.
[Issue 19: Winter 1997/98: Articles]