Diogenes of Sinope, a beggar who lived on the streets of Athens in the fourth century B.C.E., has been hailed as the progenitor of performance art, an inspiration for the Occupy movement, and, by the ...

“As the various translation projects got underway in Spain and in Southern Europe, it became obvious that Christian as well as Jewish philosophy had much to gain and to question by the enormous ...

Does all our deepest thinking about life, the universe and everything merely show our deepest biases? Is the philosophical ground that grounds everything from morality to physics deeply mired in a ...

When an animator is sentenced to death by Chairman Mao, Monkey and Pigsy from "Journey to the West" intervene and inspire the depressed filmmaker Featuring digital cutout animation, the meta comedy ...

"Nothing," it turns out, is really quite something. As in the concept of nothingness. So much so, that in the 1920s, a debate about "nothing" between two philosophers led to a lasting schism in ...

As a little girl, Roberta Hill survived four years of physical and sexual abuse in the Mohawk School in Canada, one of 139 residential schools designed to forcibly assimilate Indigenous children. An ...

Not many people know about the birthplace of Western philosophy and science. This is a territory in Western Anatolia (modern-day Turkey) called Ionia. It took its name from Ion—the legendary king of ...

German philosopher Immanuel Kant is a key figure in philosophy Hulton Archive/Getty Images On World Philosophy Day, the ideas of groundbreaking thinkers like Immanuel Kant, David Hume, and Martin ...