According to the historical de"nition of philosophy among Western philosophers from Hegel to his anti-historical critics Levinas, Derrida, and Rorty, non-Western peoples have many intellectual practices but in a crucial sense they lack “philosophy.” !is absence meant for Hegel the want of a non-pictorial and abstract, cognitive, conceptual thinking; for later thinkers such as Levinas, Derrida, ...

During more than 30 years since I enrolled into Medical School, I have had discussions around work–life balance with many friends, colleagues, and trainees. It appears to me that as I am getting older, I have these discussions more frequently, and also that more and more of my colleagues and trainees complain about a lack of work–life balance and are unhappy with the demands of the job on their...

commended for making available a treatise which can be read only in incunabula and early printed editions. But the actual latin text could have been subjected to a little more rigorous revision, so that some of the sentences might give better sense. The list of errata by no means covers all the misreadings, particularly in the first part of the book, a surprising fact considering the people who...