In “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop,” the soaring and chilling speech he delivered the day before his...
Philosophy
Explore humanity’s efforts to understand reality and determine how life should be lived. These histories follow philosophers and traditions across cultures while examining the arguments that shaped ethics, knowledge, politics, religion, science, and human identity.
Between 1617 and 1621 the English physician and polymath Robert Fludd published his masterwork Utriusque Cosmi, a...
Mary Fissell on how a wildly popular sex manual – first published in 17th-century London and reprinted...