Until the beginning of World War I, Henri Bergson (1859-1941) was the most famous philosopher in the world. He attracted overflowing crowds of Parisians to his lectures and was greeted with the same ...

His biography is, sadly, the most popular one from Austria. Bottom line: Among the first moral philosophers we have Socrates. Socrates was the founder of Western philosophy, despite never writing ...

In 1878, Bergson left the Lycée Condorcet and won entry to the École Normale Supérieure, the most exclusive university in France. “Of all the universities in the world,” Herring writes, “none has ever ...

If Henri Bergson were alive, or even remembered, they would get more. In his heyday—in the 15 years or so before the first world war—Bergson was the most famous man in the world, Emily Herring, a ...

Everyone from Charli xcx to FKA twigs has guested on Kareem Rahma's SubwayTakes show. Now, there's a podcast version with ...

Isaac Newton is best known for his development of mathematics and physics, but he also took a keen interest in economics and ...

The ancient Greek philosopher Epicurus was famous for the principle of pleasure. Credit: Agostino Scilla (crop) Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA-4.0 The ancient Greek philosopher Epicurus is famous for his ...