Philosophy

Here are ten Modern philosophers everyone should know, figures whose works not only defined their own era, but continue to influence how we think today.

Stoicism is a timeless philosophical school that can guide us in living a happier, more peaceful life, even when times are stressful.

Many readers find it difficult to imagine Sisyphus happy. This difficulty arises when people fail to treat Camus’s account as a myth.

The Explanatory Gap is the challenge of reconciling subjective mental experience with the objective physical processes studied by neuroscience.

Nietzsche’s philosophy has completely broken out of the academic circles and become a part of pop culture, but is its representation in the media accurate?

Barthes was always searching for a way of using language without cultural or ideological influences. He came to see language as a kind of skin.

The concepts of the absurd and human dignity both reveal something important about the value of human life. Most importantly, according to Camus’ Myth of Sisyphus, that life has value.

Adorno opposed the idea of simplifying life and prizing the heart over the head as part of a nefarious plan to protect the status quo.