The feelings needed to become a good philosopher “are not very common,” explained the philosopher Bertrand Russell, one of the intellectual stars of the last century. The good philosopher has “an ...

For those of us who may not have given philosophy a second thought because we associate it with mind-numbing linguistic analysis or impossibly convoluted compound German words, Kreeft assures us that ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Prolific author and professor of philosophy at Boston College Peter Kreeft opens THE GREATEST PHILOSOPHER WHO EVER LIVED with a jab at himself for writing a previous book of one ...

The student-teacher relationship between Alexander the Great and the philosopher Aristotle is a well-known chapter in the ...

Peter Kreeft, a full professor in philosophy at Boston College, loves philosophy in its radical root as “the love of wisdom.” So it’s no wonder that his book about the “greatest philosopher who ever ...

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 ...

Cambridge University professor Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) is frequently described as the greatest philosopher of the 20th century. Yet he only published one 82-page book ("Tractatus ...

OPINION: As a South African, Noah is great at presenting a global perspective, which helps us see how the world is interconnected. What Noah does differently than most of the past great ...