in January 2005, GIE has offered its readers many unique features: new and unique article types, such as the Under the Hood , Thinking Outside of the Box , and the Fellows' Corner series, that have entertained different groups of readers, the technically inclined, the forward-thinkers, and...
has gripped the attention of the greatest seers, Sages and thinkers of all ages. It is the essential experience welling up from the heart of yearning souls belonging to every country of the world and giving expression to it, the terminologies, the […] ...
concluding that they do not all garner equal treatment.The opposite of David Oderberg, Singer has argued in favor of abortion, on the grounds that the “right to life” is tied to an individual's capacity to hold preferences (which include pain and pleasure)...
What separated George Wells Parker from these earlier thinkers was his rejection of religious ideology as a literal historical truth, and his insistence that the world is best understood through Enlightenment concepts of logic, reason, and evidence, a secularist approach that finally removed religion f...
Osho soon became popular among Hollywood celebrities and open-minded millionaires in pursuit of enlightenment. Of course, such noble work like bringing light to the world should be compensated. Osho allowed himself some indulgences to prove that spirituality and wealth can coexist in harmony. He owne...
The year 1910 marked a turning point in Western spirituality. It saw the deaths of some of the most luminous religious thinkers of the nineteenth century, including psychologist-seeker William James; popular medium Andrew Jackson Davis; and Christian Science founder Mary Baker Eddy. These three figu...
Just as a little, fun bonus, here are 4 more quotes that will make you think. These come from unlikely philosophers, people you might not know as famous thinkers — or at all, for that matter. If you find them interesting, enjoy digging deeper into their lives and ideas via the links...
popularity in the 1960s and his ideas have since had a profound impact on 20th and early-21st century thinkers across philosophy—especially in schools of continental philosophy such as existentialism, postmodernism and post-structuralism—as well as art, literature, psychology, politics and popular ...
In the decades to come, the old and alternative paradigms will be struggling to fit the shape taken by what could become the Second Enlightenment. Our task is to fill the reservoir of social and cultural inventions with ideas, norms, principles and values that support a de-commodified view ...
His seminal essay “Two Concepts of Liberty” delineated the ideas of positive and negative liberty, influencing political philosophy significantly. Berlin’s erudition extended to the history of ideas, exploring topics from pluralism to the Enlightenment....