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In an age dominated by technology, market competition, and rapid specialization, philosophy is often dismissed as impractical or irrelevant. University departments shrink, students are encouraged to ...

In ninth grade, I had a wonderful, high-energy social studies teacher whose favorite exhortation was "wisdom and knowledge!" He'd usually punctuate it by thwacking his yardstick against a desk while ...

In 1997, I had a vision that I drew out in a flash that would change my life. It depicted the evolution of complexity that started with energy and grew into the dimensions of matter, life, mind, and ...

Generation Y thinks we know it all. We go off to college to get a good education, a fancy degree, and then think we know how to do everything right away. I often tell people that while I’m glad I ...

New Year’s Eve fireworks over San Francisco. A Fresno professor urges readers to pursue wisdom, self-knowledge and maturity in 2026, reject malarkey and renew values for a better, more examined life.