CHICAGO (WLS) -- What is love? Poets and the greatest writers in history have tried to answer that question almost since the beginning of time. And it has never been answered-until now. It's that one ...

If you could go back in time and be a fly on the wall for any event in history, the Symposium would be a great choice. It’s 416 BCE and we’re in Athens. The wine is flowing. We’re at a drinking party ...

What better subject to explore during Valentine's Day week than the meaning of love in our lives? Earlier in the week I offered thoughts that focused on the difficulties of forging and maintaining ...

The four-lettered word “love” possesses so much weight in our lives. But what does it really mean? For University students, love means different things to different people. Samantha Shell, freshman in ...

Plato's School (detail), by Jean Delville (1898). Source: Wikimedia commons/Public domain After the fall of the Western Roman Empire, the knowledge of Greek was lost in the West. In around 321 CE, the ...

For millennia, philosophers, prophets, and poets have debated and theorized about love: what it is, how to describe it, how to cultivate it. Scientists, not so much. Indeed, only in recent decades ...