Philosopher Immanuel Kant questioned the idea that war ennobles humanity. He pointed to ancient Greek wisdom that war creates more suffering than it kills. Kant argued that war's impact goes beyond ...

In 2024, Georgetown was allotted $195 million in federal research support, which came predominantly from the NIH and the CDC.

Each year, the United Nations puts together a list of the happiest countries in the world, comparing a wide variety of ...

Whether one can be good without God is an ancient philosophical debate pitting secular humanism against belief in God.

Jüergen Habermas, whose work on communication, rationality and sociology made him one of the world's most influential ...

Today’s youth cherish “authenticity,” but is it a virtue? According to a report from Ernst & Young, more than 9 in 10 Gen Z respondents indicated that being authentic and true to yourself is extremely ...

A professor’s mind sharpens with age, and by 70, decades of reading, supervising, debating, and writing have produced ...

The death of Jürgen Habermas has left philosophy and the Left poorer. Central to his work was a profound critique of ...

Associated with the Frankfurt School, Habermas was a world-renowned thinker on modernity and democracy who helped shape ...

BERLIN -- Juergen Habermas, one of Germany's most influential philosophers and sociologists, died at the age of 96 in the ...

He was regarded as one of Germany's most influential contemporary philosophers. Jürgen Habermas has now died in the Bavarian ...

One the most influential thinkers in post-war Germany, Jürgen Habermas linked philosophy and political action throughout his ...