Some ancient Greek and Roman philosophers supported vegetarianism. Killing animals for pleasure causes people to develop the ...

Wisdom From the 'Philosopher King'—75 Famous Quotes From Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius originally appeared on Parade.

Stoicism is a Greco-Roman philosophy that began around 300 BCE with Zeno of Citium (modern-day Cyprus). Zeno was a merchant who lost all of his goods in a shipwreck and arrived in Athens with a ...

Writing in a letter to his friend Lucilius around AD62, the Roman philosopher Seneca outlined two arguments for vegetarianism. The first argument came from a Roman philosopher called Sextius whom ...

Stoicism was the ancient Greek and then Roman philosophy founded in the last decades of the fourth century BCE by a merchant, Zeno of Citium (modern Cyprus).

2. An End To Materialism. We are now living in the access economy. This means what we really want and need is not more things to possess, but rather access to them when we need to use them.

The early Greco-Roman philosophers encouraged study and reflection as they sought wisdom, knowledge and meaningful discourse. Today’s Trumpists show a disdain for knowledge, ...

Depression is on the rise. A study conducted by the World Health Organization found an increase of 20 percent in depression cases within just a decade.I work on a university campus. One might ...

Matthew Duncombe, Associate Professor in Philosophy, University of Nottingham This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article .