Mother' is not an identity one can just try on for size..

I like that there are so many different ways of looking at the world and I like all of the particular narratives. In any case we will never all see t….

Our humanist community should be thinking more about demonstrating the fundamental truth that goodness requires neither God nor the belief in God by ….

I don't only act out of my character; my character reacts to my actions. Each time I why, even if I'm not caught, I become a little bit more of this ….

I was raised in an Orthodox Jewish household and I wouldn't say so much it's informed my views, but it's informed my interest, so I think as a child ….

Because of the failure of religion to offer satisfying answers to an increasing number of people, it's time for philosophy to address forcefully thes….

Philosophical progress changes what we take to be "intuitively" obvious, and this change covers up the tracks of the laborious arguments that precede….

And then there is Pythagoras. The legend is that the founder of theoretical mathematics was so outraged when one of his students, the haplessly gifte….

So Socrates was a kind of gadfly. He was a sort of philosophical urban gorilla hanging around in the middle of Athens, asking these peculiar question….

Philosophy is this amazing technique we've devised for getting reality to answer us back when we're getting it wrong. Science itself can't make those….

Everyone loves a hero. What we differ on is the question of who the heroes are, because we differ over what matters. And who matters is a function of….

And what is it, according to Plato, that philosophy is supposed to do? Nothing less than to render violence to our sense of ourselves and our world, ….

I have a Greek-American friend who named her daughter "Nike" and is often asked why she chose to name her offspring after a sneaker..

What one tries to force into a child against its own nature will never come to good..

That's one of the compensations for being mediocre. One doesn't have to worry about becoming mediocre..

It's something that's very often said that philosophy, as opposed to science, never makes any progress..

Colleges seem to want candidates that are so well-rounded they'd have to be two different people use together with mutually exclusive characteristics….

In Greek, our word for play is paidia and the word for education is paideia, and it is very natural and right that these words should be entangled at….

What is remarkable about the Greeks - even pre-philosophically - is that despite the salience of religious rituals in their lives, when it came to th….

The good polis is made by the good person, his moral character intact, and the good polis, in turn, helps turn out good persons, their moral characte….

It is an essential feature of the just state that the wealthy be kept away from political power and that the politically powerful be kept away from w….