What consolation
does philosophy
offer?

Introduction The Greeks who coined the word philosophy stuck two roots together — philo, love, and sophia, wisdom — and the combination sounds almost quaint until a person tries to live by it.1 Human existence, after all, is not defined by love and wisdom alone. Injustice, death, loss, emotions shot through with hatred and arbitrary […]

Introduction “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.” Genesis 1:26 For the past three millennia, this Old […]