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It is said that the single ornament adorning the walls of Immanuel Kant’s sparsely furnished study was a portrait of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Tradition also has it that the only occasion on which Kant ...

One of the special features of logic-based therapy (LBT), in contrast to other forms of cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), is LBT’s matching of “guiding virtues” to “cardinal fallacies.” According to ...

A FEW YEARS AGO I found myself in a rather dark place. The bottom had dropped out from under me in several areas of my life. It started when I stopped believing in the religion I grew up in, got worse ...

Few have left such a great impact on history as Aristotle. As a philosopher, he has heavily impacted how humans think and navigate the world. In most cultures, he is called “The Philosopher” or “The ...