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Following the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC, an outbreak of anti-Macedonian feeling swept Athens, forcing Aristotle ...

The student-teacher relationship between Alexander the Great and the philosopher Aristotle is a well-known chapter in the ...

Maimonides knew the difference well. He was not only a philosopher but a man of practical skill at the highest level of ...

Ancient Greek thinker Aristotle believed humans are social beings. He wrote that solitude is unnatural. Aristotle's ideas ...

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Defying scholarly norms, he took a hands-on approach to research. To study resilience, he visited the Crow Nation; to explore Freudian theory, he became a psychoanalyst. By Michael S. Rosenwald ...

Prof. Jonathan Lear, a renowned philosopher and psychoanalyst whose writings examined and shaped fundamental questions related to human flourishing and the making of meaning, died Sept. 22 at the age ...