Philosophy: Egypt, Greece, Rome & Western

The Buddha Meets Socrates: A Philosopher's Journal is a first-person account of teaching and learning. In 2004, Harrison J. Pemberton embarked on a journey to teach Western philosophy to a group of young Buddhist monks in India. One scholar in particular was poised to study: His Holiness the 17th Karmapa Trinley Thaye Dorje.

How do we determine right from wrong? Conscience illuminates the answer through science and philosophy.

The ancient Roman philosopher Cicero wrote that philosophy is ars vitae, the art of living. Today, signs of stress and duress point to a full-fledged crisis for individuals and communities while current modes of making sense of our lives prove inadequate.

How should I live?
What is my purpose?
Can I find happiness?

Ever felt as though life would be simpler if it came with an instruction manual? There are no easy answers to the big questions. And life does not follow a straight path from A to B.

Six ideas that reveal how to see through lies, deceptions and empty rhetoric, and a warning that we currently misunderstand both intelligence and education.
Some people have something to say in any conversation and can spot the hidden angles of completely unrelated problems; but how do they do it?

An essential visual handbook
for anyone interested in Greek
myth written by T. H.
Carpenter, one of the worlds
leading experts on myth in
ancient art.