The Middle Ages, in their philosophy and theology, were the true "Age of Reason." Our own day, for all of our science, relies more on "faith." So says David Breitenbeck, though he doesn't quite have the right definition of "faith."
"Studying the history of philosophy can help us see ourselves from the outside and that can help us inhabit philosophy from the inside." In the following guest post, David Egan, prompted by our discussion last month of Hanno Sauer's article, "The End of History", takes issue with the picture of philosophy it seems to be
The relationship between Stoicism and Cynicism, two of the older schools of philosophy, is a complicated one that has evolved over hundreds of years. In fact, Stoicism descends directly from Cynicism and both of which descend from Socrates. As Juvenal would say in his Satires, the Stoics “differ from the Cynics only by a tunic.” […]
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Zany and earnest, political yet puckish, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari were philosophy’s most improbable duo
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Definition of hedonism, a term for the various theories of conduct in which pleasure is the primary criterion.
The Allegory of the Cave Revisited: After the death of Socrates, Plato envisions a new society for Athens where… by wuko
Immanuel Kant, German philosopher who was one of the foremost thinkers of the Enlightenment and who inaugurated a new era of philosophical thought. His comprehensive and systematic work in epistemology, ethics, and aesthetics greatly influenced all subsequent philosophy. Learn more about Kant’s life and work.
Libertarianism is a political philosophy that believes that liberty and individual freedom are the most important characteristics of a free and prosperous society. Although there are many kinds of libertarianism, the one that I will be discussing in...
"The trajectory of life, the concept of universal death, conditions our thinking," writes Penelope Lively in her most recent memoir, Ammonites & Leaping Fish: A Life in Time. "We require things to end, to mirror our own situation. I have...
When we talk about Balthus what we talk about are perversities: a grown man painting erotically charged portraits of Lolita-like young girls with their skirts flapped up like flowers.
Saint Thomas Aquinas, Italian Dominican theologian and Roman Catholic saint, the foremost medieval Scholastic. He was responsible for the classical systematization of Latin theology, and he wrote some of the most gravely beautiful eucharistic hymns in the church’s liturgy. Learn more about Aquinas’s life and work.
