In the paneled quiet of the Papal Cancelleria last fortnight, eager-eyed young priests leaned forward on elbows shiny from desk-reading; ascetic monks stretched thin necks from their lowered cowls.

THE WORDS by Jean-Paul Sartre. 255 pages. George Braziller. $5. For a quarter-century, French Existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre has been the symbol of what is best (implacable honesty) and worst ...

I'm interested in three modern philosophies that overlap a lot: Existentialism, Nihilism, and Absurdism. I could be wrong here, but it seems they all start with the same idea--life doesn't have any ...

The first thing the viewer hears in Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Memoria is a loud but distant thud. The vague sound stirs Jessica Holland (played by Tilda Swinton) from her sleep and then begins to ...

“Man is, ergo God must be.…” This concise formulation expresses succinctly the classical mode of attaining natural knowledge of God. Beginning with the mediate phenomenon of the world, Thomas Aquinas ...