General Articles: Brief Lives

Daisetsu Suzuki (1870-1966)

Brian Morris contemplates the ‘ultimate reality’ of a Zen Buddhist philosopher.
[Issue 151: August/September 2022]

Pylyp Orlyk (1672-1742)

Hilarius Bogbinder tells us about an innovative Ukrainian philosopher, democratic theorist and campaigner against tyranny.
[Issue 150: June/July 2022]

Diogenes the Cynic (c.404-323 BC)

Martin Jenkins recalls what we know for sure about the philosopher in the barrel.
[Issue 149: April/May 2022]

C.L.R. James (1901-1989)

David Austin on the life in writing of a philosopher of the dispossessed, and cricket.
[Issue 148: February/March 2022]

Benedict de Spinoza (1632-1677)

Brad Rappaport expresses the essential attributes of the prophet of pantheism.
[Issue 147: December 2021 / January 2022]

Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274)

Hilarius Bogbinder discovers the surprisingly revolutionary views of one of the Catholic Church”s most revered philosophers.
[Issue 146: October/November 2021]

Anne Conway (1631-1679)

Jonathan Head looks at the life and thoughts of an early animal equaliser.
[Issue 145: August/September 2021]

C.S. Lewis (1898-1963)

Martin Jenkins gathers his courage, steps through the wardrobe and meets an enchanting professor.
[Issue 144: June/July 2021]

Hannah Arendt (1906-1975)

Hilarius Bogbinder thinks about a political theorist who saw action as good thought.
[Issue 143: April/May 2021]

Plato (427-347 BC)

William Dante Deacon looks at the life of a founding father of Western philosophy.
[Issue 142: February/March 2021]