Thomas Hobbes and the Leviathan
Born in England in 1588, Thomas Hobbes is considered one of the founders of modern political philosophy. He is today
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Aristotle: Man the social thinker
What is knowledge? Like Plato, Aristotle recognised that knowledge is only knowledge if it is of something that is true.
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Aristotle’s metaphysics
First of all, what is metaphysics? Metaphysics is one of the main branches of philosophy, along with ethics, aesthetics, logic,
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Plato: A soul in three parts, and the city-state as a large soul
Plato’s theory of Forms sheds light on his ideas about the soul. First of all, he claims that the body
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Plato’s theory of forms
Everything we sense is an illusion. Everything we sense is deception. Sounds like The Matrix (1999), or The Truman Show
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The beginning of Western philosophy (with videos)
Western philosophy began in ancient Greece around six centuries BCE. The earliest philosophers sought to answer questions about the nature
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A (more or less) full list of logical fallacies
Fallacies are flaws in reasoning that weaken our arguments. Here is a (more or less) complete guide. Share to support
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Sartre on authenticity and bad faith
“A grocer who dreams is offensive to the buyer, because such a grocer is not wholly a grocer. Society demands
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Existentialism, radical freedom, and anguish
In Existentialism is a Humanism (1946), Sartre formulates his philosophy that “existence precedes essence.” In other words, since human beings
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Sartre – freedom, existence, and the Nobel Prize
When Jean-Paul Sartre was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in October 1964, he turned it down saying that he
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The logical fallacies of Donald Trump (with video)
The speech below was given by US President Donald Trump at a rally in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, USA, on October 13,
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9 logical fallacies you should avoid (with video)
When doing philosophy, the ability to reason properly is a necessary skill. Logical fallacies are mistakes in reasoning. With bad
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Nietzsche – Going beyond good and evil
Going beyond good and evil means we are in territory not covered by traditional morality.
In ‘On the Genealogy of Morality’, Nietzsche argued that there are two types of morality: master morality and slave morality. “Good” and “evil”, he argued, are concepts that fall squarely under the latter.
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Nietzsche and the crisis of morality
“God is dead”, Zarathustra said in Nietzsche’s Thus Spake Zarathustra, “and we have killed him.” Morality had been the domain of religion for centuries and millennia, until now.
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