Very fine article by University of London philosopher John Sellars on Aristotle, “the single most influential human being ever to have lived.” I agree.   Related: My close reading of the first book of Aristotle’s classic Nicomachean Ethics, in the Philosophers, Explained series.

Algeria was the world’s largest wine exporter until the 1960s.[a] By a huge margin—more than the next six largest exporting countries (including France, Italy, and Spain)—combined. Then it collapsed. What happened? 1. Under French colonialism from the 1830s, the Algerian wine industry grew, though the regime was often brutal. 2. Then, from the 1950s and

Objectivism is a philosophy. Ayn Rand said that philosophy is a science: “Epistemology is a science devoted to the discovery of the proper methods of acquiring and validating knowledge. Ethics is a science devoted to the discovery of the proper methods of living one’s life. Medicine is a science devoted to the discovery of the

Modernist art rejects representation in art often contemptuously, calling it “non-art” or “kitsch.” Why? Partly it’s the influence of philosopher Immanuel Kant. In his famous Critique of Judgment, in which he calls “sublime” the Hebrew Scripture passage “Thou shalt make no graven images.” I discuss Kant’s general philosophy, his philosophy of art, and his influence