For example, here is one of the most famous of Dogen quotes. It concerns studying "the Way," which, for Buddhists, is something like what Western philosophers might call essential nature" "To ...

Philosophy is often thought of as being detached from “real life”. The greatest philosophers, though, sought to grasp the nature of human beings and their place in the universe, and gave ...

In A.D. 415 Christian fanatics attacked and murdered Hypatia of Alexandria, claiming she was a heretic using black magic. Here’s the truth. A detail from Raphael’s 1509-1511 masterpiece ...

Today, it’s extremely influential in Western philosophy — and not just in the halls of academia. Famous philosophers like Peter Singer have popularized it in the public sphere, too.

Henri Bergson’s philosophy for our times. Why did one of the early 20th century’s most famous philosophers go out of fashion? Fama is a fickle deity. at the turn of the 20th century ...

But they do not get much support from contemporary scientists or philosophers ... so before the first world war—Bergson was the most famous man in the world, Emily Herring, a writer, claims ...