Practical Ethics to Achieve Self-Fulfilment Widely considered one of the most important figures in the history of Western philosophy, Aristotle emerged from the cradle of Western civilization, ancient Greece, a…
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…
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…
Western philosophy began in ancient Greece around six centuries BCE. The earliest philosophers sought to answer questions about the nature of the world and the universe. This is no different…
Virtue is behaviour that shows high moral standards. To display virtue is to display goodness in something. Aristotle explains moral virtue is a disposition to behave in the right manner,…
Aristotle’s ethics can be mainly found in two of his works: Eudemian Ethics, and Nichomachean Ethics. They both carry the names of their editors: of his friend Eudemus and of…