About Bryan Magee: Bryan Edgar Magee is a noted British philosopher, broadcaster, politician, poet and author, best known as a popularizer of philosophy.
The Copernican revolution brought about by Kant was, I think, the most important single turning point in the history of philosophy.
The basic drive behind real philosophy is curiosity about the world, not interest in the writings of philosophers.
To take, for example, my own death: what I consider most likely to be true is that death will be the complete and utter end of my existence, with no successor existence of any kind that can be related to me as I now am. And if that is not the case, t...
Superstitions and belief in magic are perennial in just the same way as religion, and something near to being universal among mankind; and why this is so may be interesting, but in most cases the beliefs themselves are devoid of interesting content, ...