The ancient Greeks looked to use the four main elements to interpret reality and the world. Empedocles was the proponent of ...

Imagine an Ancient Greek philosopher like Pyrrho, so untouched by this life’s problems that he could even carry on debating ...

There are moments when life seems to fall apart without warning: a job that ends, a relationship that runs out of road, a stage of life that suddenly stops making sense. The instinctive reaction is ...

World-renowned philosopher Daniel Dennett, who championed controversial takes on consciousness and free will among other mind-bending subjects, died today at the age of 82. Stunned reactions to ...

Bryan Magee, who wrote a thick book on Schopenhauer, introduced him as “the only major Western philosopher to draw serious ...

The German philosopher and influential thinker on modernity and democracy Jürgen Habermas died Saturday in Starnberg, Germany at the age of 96. Habermas' death was confirmed in a statement on the ...

Confucius’ quote shows why learning without reflection is wasted, and why thought without study becomes dangerous in today’s ...

One of Germany's greatest postwar intellectuals, he continuously argued for a robust and inclusive democracy. His passing marks the end of an era.Jürgen Habermas, world-renowned German philosopher and ...

One way to sum up postwar American politics is to say that conservatives try to stop liberals from breaking the liberals’ own rules. The “rules” in this formulation are those of liberalism in the ...