Medieval alchemists, and more recently Harry Potter, spent time seeking the Philosopher’s Stone. It was thought to be the elixir of life, bestowing long life and perhaps even immortality. Fifty years ...

The revolutions in Russia and China were both, at least ostensibly, Marxist in character. The Second World War turned out in favour of the Allies partly because Hitler, blinded by his hatred of ...

“Cogito, ergo sum” – “I think, therefore I am” – is probably the most famous line ever uttered by a philosopher, and likely the only Latin some Americans know. So today, on what would have been the ...

Plato and Aristotle in discussion, 1437, by Luca della Robbia (ca 1400-1482), marble tile, depicts two of the greatest philosophers, who wrote two of the all-time best philosophy books. Philosophy ...

At once the most modern and most puzzling of the arts, photography has, since its invention, posed seemingly intractable problems to modern philosophers and critics. To make matters worse, the ...

TRANSMUTATION of the elements was the goal of the medieval alchemists. They dreamed of the riches to be won by the man who could find the philosopher's stone—a substance that, among other wonderful ...