Thinker Profile: Friedrich Nietzsche
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900): German philosopher whose radical views on human thinking as perspectival and shaped by the “will to power” have had a profound impact o
Thinker Profile: Gottfried Leibniz
Gottfried Leibniz (1646-1716): German rationalist philosopher who taught that reality is composed of monads—simple substances that have no spatial extension. God is the supreme m
Thinker Profile: René Descartes
René Descartes (1596-1650): French philosopher and mathematician, generally regarded as the father of modern philosophy. Descartes was a rationalist who is well known for his atte
Thinker Profile: Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud (1856-1939): Austrian physician and psychological theorizer, founder of psychoanalysis. In philosophy of religion, Freud is known for his theory that belief in God is
Book Review: God, Philosophy, Universities by Alasdair MacIntyre
What good is philosophy anyway? Those not interested in the life of the mind sidestep discussions that probe human ways of thinking. Yet The Church, celebrating philoso