Art as imitation: is art a good or a bad thing?
Art has been a subject of fascination for humans for centuries, and for good reason. It has the power to
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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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The Sophists: Truth is Relative
“Man is the measure of all things: both of things that are, and of things that are not,” says Protagoras
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