For centuries, the legendary figure Hermes Trismegistus – “thrice greatest Hermes” – was believed to be a real individual who, at the dawn of time,…

The physical world of atoms, molecules, stars and galaxies appears real to us. But is that world all that there is? Plato, in his allegory…

Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951) once remarked to a friend: “I am not a religious man, but I cannot help seeing every problem from a religious point…

A French Jesuit of the first half of the twentieth century, Teilhard called boldly into question classic philosophical conceptions of matter and spirit. Motivated by…