As the philosopher Peter Singer showed in his book

347 Plato, Greek philosopher, founder of Academy, dies.

Philosopher Paul Boghossian has also written against social constructionism.

On the Right to Philosophy () is a 1990 book by French philosopher Jacques Derrida.

Some of the oldest written music dates back to Confucius's time.

The French philosopher Jean Paul Sartre once described the Berlin Wall as a mirror.

This is similar to the thinking of the Greek philosopher Socrates, who argued that knowledge is virtue.

Oxford philosopher and transhumanist Nick Bostrom examines the future of humankind and asks whether we might alter the fundamental nature of humanity to solve our most intrinsic problems.

342 Aristotle, Greek philosopher, begins teaching Alexander, son of Philip of Macedon.

Indeed, the French philosopher Marcel Gauchet entitled a recent book Democracy Against Itself.

One is what the liberal Israeli philosopher and peace activist Avishai Margalit has termed moral racism.

They liken the transition from communism to the state of nature described by John Locke.

As the Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben recently emphasized, it appeared at the beginning of the postwar era.

As late as the 17th century, the French philosopher René Descartes argued that the entirety of space must be filled.

BERLIN Some 2,500 years ago, the ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus concluded that war is the father of all things.

Abdeslam Ben Abdelali was one of al Jabri's students. Writing on al Awan, an online blogging platform dealing with philosophy and current affairs, he shares his thoughts about the late philosopher

Biography Maurice Jean Berger was born in Marseille, France in 1927, the son of French philosopher Gaston Berger.

Bijan Abdolkarimi (born 1963 in Tehran) (Persian بیژن عبدالکریمی ) is an Iranian philosopher, thinker, translator and editor.

The French philosopher Alain Finkielkraut was right to criticize the Erdogan for over reacting to the raid on the Gaza freedom flotilla.

The October Revolution has always had many critics. The Russian philosopher Ivan Shmelev named it the great beating of Russia.

Sun Tzu, the great Chinese philosopher of war, once wrote, If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles.

The Ancient Greek philosopher Plato believed that to release another person from ignorance despite their initial resistance is a great and noble thing.

Starting with the simple tale of an ant, philosopher Dan Dennett unleashes a devastating salvo of ideas, making a powerful case for the existence of memes concepts that are literally alive.

Karl Marx wrote that history always repeats itself, first as tragedy, then as farce.

Medersa by Piero Sierra in FlickrThe death of Moroccan philosopher and social theorist, Mohammed Abed al Jabri, has gone with little notice in the media.

I am sure that all members know what the ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus said Ta panta rhei Everything in life is in flux .

But, as the English philosopher Jeremy Bentham once wrote, the more one is exposed to the exercise of political power, the greater the temptations.

The philosopher Denis Dutton in his wonderful book The Art Instinct makes the case that, The value of an artwork is rooted in assumptions about the human performance underlying its creation.

Alasdair MacIntyre, the famous philosopher, said that, We have the concepts of the ancient morality of virtue, honor, goodness, but we no longer have a system by which to connect them.

We can see this process in sharp relief when, following the philosopher Sir Isaiah Berlin, we classify experts as hedgehogs or foxes.

The British philosopher Bertrand Russell was not a religious man, but he said, It's in our hearts that the evil lies, and it's from our hearts that it must be plucked out.

A few years ago, I felt like I was stuck in a rut, so I decided to follow in the footsteps of the great American philosopher, Morgan Spurlock, and try something new for 30 days.

The Arab world lost three of its cultural icons in the spam of a month. They are Egyptians philosopher Dr Abdel Wahab El Miseiri and film maker Youssef Chahine and Palestinian poet Mahmood Darwish.

He wrote about Spinoza, the theological controversies of 17th century Holland, and other esoteric subjects.

Why are babies cute? Why is cake sweet? Philosopher Dan Dennett has answers you wouldn't expect, as he shares evolution's counterintuitive reasoning on cute, sweet and sexy things .

It is often considered to exist as a dry red powder (also known as al Kibrit al Ahmar الكبريت الأحمر red sulphur) made from a legendary stone the philosophers' stone.

BERLIN Some 2,500 years ago, the ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus concluded that war is the father of all things. He might have added that crisis is their mother.

And that led to Henri Bergson, the French philosopher, to say, All the great thinkers of humanity have left happiness in the vague so that they could define each of them could define their own terms.

Over at the blogosphere and social networking websites, reactions were divided between those whose Jabri's thinking helped reconcile modernity and tradition, and those who see in the philosopher's work yet another attack against religious authority.

American philosopher Brand Blanshard, for example, conceived the Absolute as a single overarching intelligible system but declined to characterize it in terms of consciousness or experience.

The title of this journal was inspired by that given to a collection of essays by Landauer, which his friend, the philosopher Martin Buber, published in 1921.

During the reign of Nero from 54 to 68, the Stoic philosopher Seneca wrote a number of dialogues and letters on such moral themes as mercy and generosity.

As the philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah has put it, Thou shalt not kill is a test you take pass fail. Honor thy father and thy mother admits of gradations.

In the 17th century, the mathematician and philosopher, Blaise Pascal, wrote of his dread of the infinite, his feeling of insignificance at contemplating the vast reaches of outer space.

Or, in the more elevated language of the twentieth century s most influential liberal philosopher, John Rawls, this appears to be a practical dilemma which philosophy alone cannot resolve.