Daniel Robinson

"I've come to warn you. A cloud of darkness looms over the universe. An evil of old stirs in the shadows. The countdown to the destruction of everything has begun." Seventeen-year-old Jonathan Tomus isn't your typical teenage boy. He lives on a developing planet, on the outskirts of Union space. He lacks interest in the most basic aspects of high school life. He possesses little ambition for his future, except to ensure Laura-his only friend-and his...

Imagine you are sitting in a lovely garden. It is in the early hours, when mist enshrouds the liminal space between night and day. Or, it may be in the cool of the evening, as a pallet of color begins to emerge just beyond the horizon. You are, drawn to quiet reflection and wish to express the musings of your heart in word or verse, in watercolor sketch or photographic image. Such was the experience of the authors of this invitation to spiritual formation...

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Daniel N. Robinson is Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus, Georgetown University. He is Faculty Fellow in Philosophy at Oxford University where he has lectured annually since 1991. He is the author or editor of numerous books including Wild Beasts and Idle Humors: The Insanity Defense from Antiquity to the Present and Aristotle's Psychology. How should a prize be awarded after a horse race? Should it go to the best rider, the best person,...

Virtually all of the major building blocks of our culture (law, government, religion, science, medicine, drama, architecture, and more) derived ultimately from the ancient Greeks. In these 12 lectures, you'll explore the continuing influence of the classical Greek achievement on contemporary life. The point is not the often tedious claim that there is nothing new under the sun. Rather, it is to underscore the remarkable continuity of the Greek perspective...

The Jewish Christians, Hellenized or Orthodox, defended a monotheistic source of law.

There were really two great renaissances. The first occurred at Oxford in the 13th century: the recovery of experimental inquiry by Roger Bacon and others.

Hegel's Reason in History and other works inspired a transcendentalist movement that spanned Europe, Great Britain, and the United States.

By the second half of the 19th century, the House of Intellect was divided between two competing perspectives: the growing aesthetic concept of reality and the narrowing scientific view.

Apart from trade schools devoted to medicine and law, the university as we know it did not come into being until 12th-century Paris.