Biographies help promote a better understanding of the ideas of philosophers, though comprehending the ideas these philosophers promote does not necessarily require a historical understanding of the ...
The feelings needed to become a good philosopher “are not very common,” explained the philosopher Bertrand Russell, one of the intellectual stars of the last century. The good philosopher has “an ...
SAN FRANCISCO — Prolific author and professor of philosophy at Boston College Peter Kreeft opens THE GREATEST PHILOSOPHER WHO EVER LIVED with a jab at himself for writing a previous book of one ...
Cambridge University professor Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) is frequently described as the greatest philosopher of the 20th century. Yet he only published one 82-page book ("Tractatus ...
Peter Kreeft, a full professor in philosophy at Boston College, loves philosophy in its radical root as “the love of wisdom.” So it’s no wonder that his book about the “greatest philosopher who ever ...
Plato and Aristotle in discussion, 1437, by Luca della Robbia (ca 1400-1482), marble tile, depicts two of the greatest philosophers, who wrote two of the all-time best philosophy books. Philosophy ...
The revolutions in Russia and China were both, at least ostensibly, Marxist in character. The Second World War turned out in favour of the Allies partly because Hitler, blinded by his hatred of ...
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