As he lay dying, Socrates gazed upon the faces of his friends and loved ones, gathered in sorrow around his bed. The poison of the hemlock had taken hold, coursing…
Imagine living in a world where myths and legends were the only explanation for everything around you. Gods and demigods, monsters, muses, and nymphs, centaurs and cyclopes, giants, gorgons, werewolves…
God is all-powerful. God is all-good. God is the creator of everything. And, at the same time, some very bad things exist. Howcome, in the same universe supposedly created by…
Art has been a subject of fascination for humans for centuries, and for good reason. It has the power to inspire, to provoke, and to challenge our perspectives on the…
Fallacies, despite being wrong, usually appear to be correct and thereby can convince people into accepting them. Fallacies generally result in arguments that are weak, unsound, or invalid. These eight…
When we do applied philosophy, we take philosophical ideas and apply them to current situations and affairs. When these situations and affairs are ethical in nature, we are doing applied…
NOTE: Not fond of MAJOR SPOILERS? Read something else instead. Set in a contemporary version of the United States, the premise of Don’t Look Up is a sci-fi trope that…
Traditionally, the notion of personhood was intertwined with the concept of a soul. However, with the evolution of Western beliefs and philosophy, especially in recent centuries, the existence of a…
Man was born free, but everywhere he is in chains. Jean Jacques Rousseau Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) strongly believed in the innate goodness of the human being. Born in Geneva,…
An Kantian look of Epicurean proportions. The acclaimed Netflix series of 2021 reached number one in 94 countries, drawing over 142 million households in four weeks. As of November 2021,…
John Locke (1632 – 1704) is considered to be one of the most influential Enlightenment thinkers. Born in England, he is commonly known as the father of Liberalism and a…
Born in England in 1588, Thomas Hobbes is considered one of the founders of modern political philosophy. He is today best known for his book Leviathan (1651), where he formulated…
What is knowledge? Like Plato, Aristotle recognised that knowledge is only knowledge if it is of something that is true. This truth must be justified in a way which shows…
First of all, what is metaphysics? Metaphysics is one of the main branches of philosophy, along with ethics, aesthetics, logic, epistemology, and others. Aristotle calls metaphysics “first philosophy”, and says…
Plato’s theory of Forms sheds light on his ideas about the soul. First of all, he claims that the body and the soul are distinct. First to exist is the…