Having dreams is vitally important. They remind you of what you value and motivate you to strive and grow each day. A day ...

What Boethius described was no symptom of carceral derangement; the lady was his metaphor for the power of philosophy to breathe life back into a deadened soul. With luck, you are not reading this ...

Never forget that Darwin and Marx were creatures of the 19th century “Progressive” philosophy. They didn’t invent it. It was the European “zeitgeist” they grew up in. The self-anointed “intellectual” ...

Not trying in everyday life Understanding a philosophy is one thing. Living it is another. Wu wei, the art of not trying, ...

More BC students than ever are opting for the examined life, according to enrollment figures, and the numbers are said to be the highest in University memory. According to Assoc. Prof. Ronald Tacelli, ...

Can computers think? Is there a God? What is the meaning of life? Is abortion morally wrong? Can anyone really know anything at all? By studying such difficult questions, students of philosophy learn ...

To confront the questions and challenges in life that have no easy answers requires, in Kant’s words, the courage to use one’s own understanding. Our mission in the Philosophy Department at Miami ...

Everyone who has taken a philosophy class knows how the tone of the classroom changes when that one kid chimes in with his ...