Philosophy of the City
Brooklyn College Boylan Hall, 2900 Bedford Avenue, BrooklynPhilosophy began in the city (Plato, Aristotle), and the city is a recurrent topic for major writers in the history of philosophy (Aquinas, Machiavelli); today, as the majority of the world's people live in cities, practitioners are taking the field in new directions -- examining the question, "how shall we live?"