Most humans are not as wise as Magnus M; hence we need philosophers. TikTok, the social networking site that hosts several thriving communities of readers, first alerted me to the return of ...

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Although he doesn’t cite Schleiermacher by name, Mr. Rowlands—a professor of philosophy at the University of Miami and the author of several books about animal psychology, as well as a memoir ...

But they do not get much support from contemporary scientists or philosophers, who tend to endorse the naturalist view. If Henri Bergson were alive, or even remembered, they would get more.

Then help came—in the form, as Boethius tells it, of a mysterious and divine visitor to his cell: Lady Philosophy. A being of superhuman dignity and beauty, she engages Boethius in a series of ...