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Que puis-je connaître? Que dois-je faire? Que m'est-il permis d'espérer? A Königsberg, le sévère professeur Kant répondit à ces questions, et à quelques autres, au cours d'une journée si folle qu'il devait en manquer sa promenade...

Au soir de sa vie, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, génie universel, avait achevé de décrire l'univers. Mais aux yeux de son jeune ami Théodore, la question du mal restait incompréhensible: pourquoi les hommes peuvent-ils commettre de si grands crimes?

On a long, cold winter night, more than three hundred years ago, Mister Descartes is suddenly beset by profound doubts: Can I trust my senses, or am I fooled by illusions? Is there an Evil Genius behind all things? What if the outside world is only a dream? Is my own existence nothing but the product of my imagination?

“Tell us, Delphic Oracle, who is the wisest man in all of Greece?” So begins The Death of Socrates . No mortal man is wiser than Socrates, who, on his daily walks through Athens, talks to all the people he meets. When the person he talks to takes himself to be very wise, Socrates asks so many questions that the person ends up admitting he knows nothing. When he runs into people who know little, Socrates sets them on the way to wisdom. But not everyone shares Socrates’s love for the truth. When the people of Athens put him on trial for his ceaseless questioning, how will he find the courage to continue to speak the truth?

Why is a horse called a horse? and not a giraffe or a flapdoodle? Discover philosophy with Plato!