Diogenes of Sinope, a beggar who lived on the streets of Athens in the fourth century B.C.E., has been hailed as the progenitor of performance art, an inspiration for the Occupy movement, and, by the ...

Will Durant did not expect his path-breaking book The Story of Philosophy to be so popular, both in his time and for decades after. The book, first published in 1926, can still be found in bookshops ...

A conversation with the German theorist about the history of Western philosophy and more. In 2019, Jürgen Habermas—perhaps Europe’s most well-known living philosopher—published his long-awaited Auch ...

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 ...

“Upon those who step into the same rivers, different and again different waters flow,” said pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Heraclitu, emphasizing the trickiness of navigating our way through an ...

Philosophy is often treated as something abstract, a conversation that belongs to dead Greeks or modern intellectuals in tweed jackets. Yet at its best, philosophy was never meant to stay in the ...

Many popular self-help books by Western authors draw heavily from Hindu philosophy. Concepts like the Law of Attraction in 'The Secret' and the idea of interconnectedness echo ancient Hindu scriptures ...