Let’s start with a question: are there limits to what we can know and understand? From the ancient Greeks to modern scholars, the pursuit of knowledge has been an essential…
1. Introduction As the cold wind blew outside, René Descartes sat huddled in his small studio, deep in thought. The flickering candlelight cast shadows across the walls, while the philosopher…
The scientific revolution, spanning the 16th to 18th centuries, witnessed groundbreaking discoveries and radical ideas that fundamentally altered humanity’s understanding of the universe. Two key figures stand out in this…
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…
“Man is the measure of all things: both of things that are, and of things that are not,” says Protagoras in Plato’s book aptly called Protagoras. You and I the…