Articles

Today’s debate between methods of attaining knowledge—one divinely revealed, the other gained by rational inquiry—is a significant aspect of Aristotle’s legacy.

Carl Gustav Jung founded an approach he named Analytical Psychology, many tenets of which have led some to refer to him as a “founding father of the New Age.”

Though considered one of the three “great fathers” of modern psychotherapy, Alfred Adler is less familiar to most people today than Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung.

It’s unusual to find someone who not only retains his or her early views but builds a whole superstructure of philosophical meaning atop them. Ayn Rand was such a person.

This issue’s Bio Vision looks at one of the most influential economists of all time, John Maynard Keynes.

Best known for An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith is credited with establishing the discipline of political economics.

In pioneering the philosophy called positivism, August Comte had a profound effect on the most noted philosophers of the 20^th century.

One of the intellectual  giants of the 20^th century, Bertrand Russell earned the acclaim of a Nobel Prize and the reprimand of two prison sentences.

Looking at his early life, no one could have known the impact Friedrich Nietzsche would have on society. But in his final years he was not at peace.

David Hume, Scottish philosopher, historian, and leading neoskeptic, was a highly controversial figure in 18^th-century Britain.

Marx believed that the rules of culture and government in general are formulated primarily to suppress the poorer classes and should be forcibly abandoned.

Sigmund Freud’s message is largely responsible for the unwillingness of so many today to see themselves as accountable for their actions and personal problems.