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…
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…
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…
“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…