Kabbalah intertwines with Greek philosophy, from Neoplatonism to Pythagorean symbols, shaping Jewish mystical thought.
Ancient Greek philosophers shaped cities through laws, planning, and governance, blending philosophy with civic life and ...
ABSTRACT: Automatic detection of cognitive distortions from short written text could support large-scale mental-health screening and digital cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT). Many recent approaches ...
A single mistake can sometimes change how we see the truth forever. When something we trusted turns out to be false, it forces us to question not just that one belief, but the way we judge everything ...
THE title of Mr. Smith's book conveys an adequate idea of its scope. The author indicates the lines of his treatment thus:—“In Descartes' system, as we have tried to show, there are three fundamental ...
Quote of the Day: Pythagoras was a Greek philosopher, mathematician, and founder of the Pythagorean brotherhood. He was born c. 570 BCE in Samos, Ionia (Greece). According to Britannica, the ...
In A Theory of Justice (Harvard University Press, 1971), the philosopher John Rawls proposed an account of justice that, in his view, was better than the competing theories, viz., utilitarianism, ...
THE QUEST FOR BEING (254 pp.)—Sidney Hook—St. Martin’s ($6). In an age when brisk, jet-borne academic types whisk in and out of Washington, the legendary absent-minded professor is an anachronism. But ...
When the odds are against you, believing in yourself can be a source of strength—but it seems to require a cavalier disregard for the evidence. So is optimism a rational way to improve your life, or ...