Democritus, the pre-Socratic Greek philosopher known as the “Laughing Philosopher”. Credit: GreekReporter Archive Democritus of Abdera was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher best known for developing ...

The work of any philosopher is subject to many possible interpretations. This is especially true of Hegel, whose prose is famously dense and elliptical—just ask Nietzsche or Schopenhauer—and ...