Mike Hassell

Jean-Paul Sartre, a French philosopher, is perhaps the best known advocate of existentialism. In this view, no external authority gives life meaning: mankind...

Immanuel Kant's "transcendental" philosophy transcends the question of what we know to ask how we know it. Before Kant, philosophers had debated for...

Few philosophers have so extensively influenced thought and language as Aristotle. His conception of the universe pervades Christian theology. Knowledge of...

Popular culture usually represents love in physical or sexual terms; our society has been ';liberated' in that premarital sex (and in some cases even...

Concern for others is the basis of human decency; without it, our communities are increasingly degraded by selfishness and corruption. Some think that crime...

Saving, budgeting, and investing are keys to creating wealth-but there are many different philosophies about how to approach this essential task. The...

Arthur Schopenhauer was the most articulate and influential pessimist in the history of human thought. He was convinced that the space and time of ordinary...

Joseph Schumpeter (18831950) viewed capitalism as a dynamic engine of progress. In his view, mature economic systems find a regular and stable routine of...

David Hume (1711-1776) represented the culmination of the British philosophy of sense-experience. Although he lived in the age of reason, Hume had profound...

Frank Knight (18851972) fathered the famous Chicago School of Economics, whose members are among the most decorated in history. An abstract theorist, Knight...

Christianity arose within the social and spiritual dislocation of the Roman Empire. Jesus, perceived by authorities as a threat to public stability, was...

Punishment involves authority and the exercise of power by one or more humans over another, usually to preserve order and security. But any understanding of...

Though medical science began with the ancient Greek physician Hippocrates, dissection and the study of the human body was prohibited for religious reasons...

John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) was without question the most influential economist of the twentieth century. His most important work, The General Theory of...

Thailand, Laos, and Burma have been known as the ';Golden Triangle' because of their historically prominent role in the drug trade. For centuries, these...

Moral problems are unique to humans, and moral awareness is a fundamental aspect of the human experience. Yet questions continue about whether morals are...

Isaac Newton's world had operated in a fixed, rigid, ';absolute' framework of space and time. Yet discoveries about electromagnetism in the late nineteenth...

Many believe the ';Middle Ages' lacked progress, yet during this time algebra was developed, and Islamic scholars preserved and extended Greek thought (which...

Ludwig von Mises (1881-1973) and Friedrich Hayek (1899-1992) were perhaps the foremost defenders of the free market and limited government during the...