What links the shell of a Nautilus, Da Vinci’s ‘Last Supper’ and the Pyramids? The Golden Ratio.

Is a woman born a woman? In her book ‘The Second Sex’, existentialist philosopher Simone de Beauvoir says no.

Is lust the first rung on a ladder that leads to the appreciation of abstract beauty?

What is the difference between the beautiful and the sublime? This question was central to Edmund Burke’s ‘A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful’.

Do we really have free will, or is it an illusion? Benjamin Libet’s neuro-science experiments seemed to indicate that human actions were taken before the conscious decision to take them was made.

Which is better – Freedom or Security? This is the question Thomas Hobbes tackled by imagining people living in a State of Nature without laws.

In a world beset by evils from human cruelty, to natural disasters, to daytime TV, how can there be an omnipotent, omniscient, caring God?

Why shouldn’t we be able to live our lives as we please, so long as we aren’t causing harm to others?