Explore timeless debates and foundational ideas from the greatest thinkers throughout the ancient and modern disciplines.
How are we to understand Camus’s short story The Adulterous Woman and how does she relate to Camus’s position on the French-Algerian settlers?
Nietzsche’s most important idea, from his most important work, rests on the idea of ‘sounding brass.’ No one knows for sure what it means.
Did you know that you can have a chat with your unconscious? Carl Jung devised a step-by-step guide to make that possible.
Hobbes teaches us to seek truth, beware of manipulation, understand human nature, value science, and approach language cautiously.
René Descartes’ mind-body dualism, the view that the mind and body are different kinds of things, haunts cognitive science to this day.
From Plato to Nietzsche, these are five philosophers’ views on physical exercise and how the body shapes discipline, balance, and the good life.
What do an ancient Greek philosopher, a French exile, an American urbanist, a 19th-century German philosopher, and a Scottish nature writer have in common? Walking.
How Diogenes of Sinope turned doing nothing into a radical act of freedom and why his philosophy matters more than ever in today’s busy world.