Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Aristotle's method of biological investigation and the first systematic and thorough study of animals, which was unequalled for almost 2,000 years. Show more Melvyn ...

Greek philosophers were edging towards the radical idea that there were no gods who controlled the destiny of life on earth from some detached mountaintop. Rather, it was man himself who, thanks to ...

The quote first appeared in a 1926 book by U.S. historian and philosopher Will Durant titled "The Story of Philosophy." It is part of a passage in which Durant helps to elucidate a concept first ...