Perspectives on Western Culture is a year-long ... In the first semester, students begin by encountering two "spiritual eruptions": the rise of Greek philosophy, and the Judeo-Christian experience of ...

Intellectual life in the modern West traces its origins to the ancient Greeks and Romans. However, by the launch of the First ...

Authors who formulated their ideas and theories in classical Greek or Latin are considered the pioneers of Western culture in many different fields: literature, philosophy, theatre, art, natural ...

Understanding the self can feel like unraveling a complex puzzle. Classical Indian philosophy, however, offers some profound insights. Often, we find ourselves contemplating who we truly are ...

His dislike for pigeonholing present or historical composers other than Western Europeans or Northern Americans as ‘composers of the national schools/styles’ and placing them somewhere on the ...