For those of us who may not have given philosophy a second thought because we associate it with mind-numbing linguistic analysis or impossibly convoluted compound German words, Kreeft assures us that ...

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 ...

Socrates is the most important exponent of Western philosophy, his ideas forming a continuum from Ancient Greece to today's ...

1. It’s barely 30 years old, but this feels like the Great Granddaddy of philosophical biography. The book’s subtitle, “The Duty of Genius,” perfectly captures the subject. If the Austrian-born Ludwig ...

In a recent podcast, the hosts of Philosophy Bites called up well-known philosophers—people like Martha Nussbaum, Many laughed at first, perhaps because it’s odd to talk about philosophers as if they ...

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 “School of ...