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…
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…
Everything we sense is an illusion. Everything we sense is deception. Sounds like The Matrix (1999), or The Truman Show (1998), but it’s actually Plato, almost two and a half…