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Zeno of Citium, born in 334 BCE, was the founder of the Stoic school of philosophy. Originally a Phoenician (Cyprus) merchant, he lived most of his life in mainland Greece after being shipwrecked off the coast of Attica. Most of the details concerning the life story...
With Plato, philosophy as we know it, took shape. Born in Athens somewhere around 428 BCE into an aristocratic family, Plato is probably the single most influential person in Western philosophy. Unlike most philosophers of ancient Greece, all of Plato's writings are...
Zarathustra, or Zoroaster as the Greeks called him, was the founder and prophet of the religion that is today known as Zoroastrianism. The Zoroastrian belief probably originated sometime between 1600-800 BC in Persia (present-day Iran) and is often referred to as one...
Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) was a Bengali philosopher, poet and author. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature 1913 for Gitanjali. Born in 1861 to an influential family in Calcutta, he grew up as the youngest of fourteen siblings. The English Gitanjali or Song...
William Blake (1757-1827) was an English poet and painter. One of six children to a merchant, he grew up in London where he lived most of his life. As a young imaginative home-schooled boy, he always wanted to become a painter, but due to poor finances, his parents...
Nature is a wonderful way to align your attention with your experience. When one is out in green nature, one immediately begins to live life more directly. This is something the transcendentalists of the 19th century knew well, and also considering the new access to...
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