Socrates' quote teaches that true wisdom comes from recognizing the limits of one's knowledge. Intellectual humility ...

I made a new friend recently: Dr. Kari Konkola. He has a doctoral degree in history and has spent a long time examining what are called Confessors' Manuals, which are medieval Latin texts by Christian ...

How do you know you’re awake right now? You’re reading this, so of course you’re awake. Still, though. How do you know you’re not dreaming? Philosopher René Descartes posed this challenge back in the ...

Humility has been lauded as a virtue in most world cultures and wisdom traditions. More recently, scientists have started to study humility, and they’re discovering its many benefits. “Psychologists ...

A common complaint in America today is that politics and even society as a whole are broken. Critics point out endless lists of what should be fixed: the complexity of the tax code, or immigration ...

Christians did not invent humility as a virtue, but Christian scripture and subsequent Christian thought put humility at the centre of the moral life in an unprecedented way. Image: “Christ washing ...