Charlton Heston

In the late 13th century, this quiet reflective Dominican scholar concentrated his work o...

Arthur Schopenhauer was the most articulate and influential pessimist in the history of h...

Aristotle (384322 B.C.) was Platos student, but revised his teachers ideas to be more con...

A Portuguese Jew living in Holland, Spinoza sought a life of "supreme and unending happin...

Before Kant, philosophers had debated for centuries whether knowledge is derived from exp...

Sartre's existentialism faces the evil in human existence and sees that humans are respon...

Plato was the first person to organize and record the issues and questions that define ph...

David Hume sought to create a comprehensive "science of man" in order to understand human...

Hegel created a vast speculative and idealistic philosophy, where truth is found not in t...

Nietzsche condemned nearly all of the religious and philosophical thought of his day to b...

Aurelius Augustinus was a key figure in the transition from classical antiquity to the Mi...

For Kierkegaard, truth is a subjective reality which we must live, not simply something t...

John Dewey wants philosophy to rise above old tired disputes to address new, more vital q...

Today we see little public outrage about Bill Clinton's misconduct. With enormous skill, ...