philopapers

Gu Yanwu (born July 15, 1613, Kunshan, Jiangsu province, China—died Feb. 15, 1682, Quwo, Shaanxi province) was one of the most famous of the Ming dynasty loyalists, whose rationalist critiques of the useless book learning and metaphysical speculations of neo-Confucian philosophy (which had been the underpinning of the Chinese empire for almost 1,000 years) started […]

Robert Grosseteste (born c. 1175, Suffolk, Eng.—died Oct. 9, 1253, Buckden, Buckinghamshire) was an English bishop and scholar who introduced into the world of European Christendom Latin translations of Greek and Arabic philosophical and scientific writings. His philosophical thinking—a somewhat eclectic blend of Aristotelian and Neoplatonic ideas—consistently searched for a rational scheme of things, both

(Short summary) In this study that also have been published in multiple world languages as a book, the author examines the factors that cause the absurdity of the world and the human life. He searches for the methods to cease these, or, to weaken their power and to lessen their weight on the human consciousness.

Bill Cooke on the humanist value of Nietzsche. The story of the long rehabilitation of Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) after being unfairly implicated in the rise of Nazism is well known. But the time may be coming when another daring rescue operation will be called for. For several years now, Nietzsche has been hailed as one

(Short summary) Through twenty years, Mondrian made only one type of paintings. In all of them, straight black lines are visible, which always meet each other through a vertical angle. The squares and rectangles which result in that, are filled with the colours blue, yellow, and red in their most pure form that is available