SØREN KIERKEGAARD The aesthetic versus the ethical Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) was a Danish philosopher who is regarded as one of the two “fathers” of existentialism (the other one being Friedrich Nietzsche). He was born in Copenhagen to a wealthy family and lived there most of his life in relative loneliness. He was once engaged to...
VIDEO: Interview with Kristof Van RossemReflecting on the Surface. Philosophy versus Psychology
Ran Lahav's Publications Philosophy Books: The Deep Philosophy Group: origin, testimonies, practices, (editor, and author of "Who are we?"), Loyev Books 2018. Philosophical Contemplation: theory and techniques for the contemplator, Loyev Books 2018. Stepping out of Plato's Cave: philosophical counseling, philosophical practice, and self-transformat...
Susanne Langer (1895-1985) THEMES ON THIS PAGE: 1. THE NEED TO SYMBOLIZE2. ART SHAPES FEELINGS 3. ART AS AN ILLUSION Susanne Langer (1895-1985) was an American Philosopher, one of the first female academic philosophers in the USA, popular in the past but nowadays often neglected or forgotten. She was born in New York to German-bor...
VIDEO: Laura CandiottoGruppi di dialogo filosofico integrale [spvideo]http://youtu.be/KGfvVIkS_p0[/spvideo]
Gottfried Leibniz – The philosophical insight of a teenager Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) was an important German philosopher, mathematician, and scientist. In mathematics, he discovered differential and integral calculus in parallel with Newton. He also developed many other ideas in mathematics, the sciences, and philosophy. Among other th...
GIACOMO LEOPARDI Music is not about beauty Giacomo Leopardi (1798-1837) was a major Italian thinker and poet who died at the age of 39. The following is from his book THOUGHTS (Pensieri, 1837), a large collection of fragments about humanity, which are often pessimistic and dark. In the following fragment Leopardi argues that the pleasure...
Emmanuel Levinas (1906-1995) Emmanuel Levinas was a Jewish French philosopher. He grew up in Lithuania and received Jewish education, and moved to France to study philosophy in 1924. Drafted to the French military, he spent much of World War II as a prisoner of war in Germany, and as a Jewish prisoner he experienced considerable hardship. Af...
THEMES ON THIS PAGE: 1. EROTIC LOVE2. AFFECTION3. FRIENDSHIP Clive Staples Lewis, better known as C.S. Lewis (1898-1963), was an English novelist and thinker. Although he is best known for his fantasies and science fiction novels, such as The Chronicles of Narnia, he was also a philosophy and English professor at Oxford and Cambridge Universities. ...