It’s astonishing how relentlessly Western philosophy has strained to prove ... disconcerting if I am an immortal being created in the image of God and the squirrel just a physical organism ...

We believe that much of western European philosophy, from ancient Greece to the present, has gone catastrophically wrong, pushing a worldview that justifies practices that will be seen in the ...

In many ways, there is little to connect the idealised images of the human body found in the ancient Greek world and those with which we now live. But it is here we can see at its clearest the origins ...

Where did Socrates, the foundational figure of Western philosophy, get the inspiration ... The handsome young soldier Alcibiades looks on. The image captures the standard view of Socrates: as ...

Now some might object that being a Zen master automatically knocks you off the list of great philosophers. Taking that position, however, misses how closely the history of Western philosophy is ...