Philosophers

Plato (left) and Aristotle (right), a detail of The School of Athens, a fresco by Raphael.

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Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951)

Irrationalism, 19th- and early 20th-century philosophical movement that claimed to enrich the apprehension of human life by expanding it beyond the rational to its fuller dimensions. Rooted either in metaphysics or in an awareness of the uniqueness of human experience, irrationalism stressed the

Which famous philosopher do you share a viewpoint with? This quiz asks the big questions to find the answer.

This chart is AWFUL. All of these thinkers/schools have influenced culture all over the world and extends far wider and deeper than these few comments would lead one to believe. In short, these thinkers and their followers are largely responsible for the development of what we now take to be "Western Civilization."

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Seneca was a Renaissance politician and philosopher who had many ideas about what makes a good man.

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We’ve all seen them, on the boardwalks of Venice Beach or of the Jersey Shore: poop-joke t-shirts that state the gist of various world religions or philosophies by reference to the aforementioned bodily function.

Learn more about how these two key philosophers were related and how their teachings differed.

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To paraphrase the novelist Sheila Heti, I’ve been spending a lot of time lately wondering: how should a person be? These are vexy times, on both global and local theaters. Big questions struc…

Bertrand Russell, 1957