Greek philosopher Epicurus is famous for teaching: "Pleasure is the principle and end to a happy life" and for his Epicurean school in Athens ...

The author’s eloquent musings on these primal associations, with references to literary figures, lead to a discussion of Greek atomism. The ancient Greek philosopher Democritus imagined all ...

Does this mean that atomism boils down to an empty truism: that everything is made of whatever everything is made of? This hardly seems likely, given the staggering heuristic power in physical science ...

The concept of viewing members of a society as atoms is known as “Social Atomism” in theories of social studies. My analysis generalizes the concept further by going into the internal ...

The belief that life exists outside of Earth is known as ‘cosmic pluralism’. Intriguingly, this was briefly a topic of discussion during the medieval period, in the works of none other than St Thomas ...