In accordance with our meta agreement to have topic challenges and a later meta agreement to have topic challenges lasting for two months and overlapping by one month, it is time to announce the April–May 2023 topic challenge. Based on the number of votes (+5), our 67th topic challenge will be th...

The ethics of (secular) humanism is epicureanism [1]. I believe the ethics of European Enlightenment could be said to be epicureanism also, although it might not be as clear-cut. But what is the ethics of American transcendentalism and of European romanticism? I put them together because they sha...

After reading Shakespeare I'm never certain if I've understood it correctly. An example is the Dear Brutus speech in Julius Caesar. Cassius: Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world Like a Colossus, and we petty men Walk under his huge legs and peep about To find ourselves dishonourable grave...