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Anaxarchus: The Greek Philosopher Who Followed Alexander the Great on His Campaigns
Anaxarchus, a Greek philosopher at Alexander the Great’s court, upheld wisdom and detachment, reflecting on the fleeting ...
BBC18y
Philosophers justifying slavery
Many of them did so purely out of self-interest, in order to continue a barbaric trade, but some historical philosophers sought to justify slavery from the best intentions. The great Greek ...
Greek Reporter12d
The Unknown Side of Greek Philosopher Socrates as a Soldier in Battle
Socrates was a philosopher warrior, exemplifying courage, endurance and the pursuit of virtue through action as well as ...
PBS2y
Hellenistic Culture
Early Christianity engaged Hellenistic culture generally, and more specifically Greek philosophy, from the end of the first century on. We see bits and pieces of this in passages such as the ...
The Star5mon
History of the middle finger: From Greek philosophers to road rage
How did flipping someone off start? The gesture is a legacy of Roman-Greek antiquity and is said to have been used in discourse by well-known philosophers. This is what Reinhard Krüger writes in ...
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Vrasidas Karalis: Aristotle 2,400 years on - the legacy and relevance of a Greek philosopher
the Legacy and Relevance of a Greek Philosopher". Karalis elaborates on the topic in this interview he gave Themi Kallos. Aristotle (384-322 BC), together with his teacher Plato, is one of the ...