As he lay dying, Socrates gazed upon the faces of his friends and loved ones, gathered in sorrow around his bed. The poison of the hemlock had taken hold, coursing…
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…
Today, calling someone a sophist is often meant in an disapproving way. We often use the term for a certain type of individual: a sleazy politician, a shady lawyer, or…
Socrates lived around four centuries BC, and his fame has far surpassed his living years. He never wrote any of his own ideas down. However, he is mainly remembered through…
“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…
Why study philosophy? “The unexamined life is not worth living”, Socrates said just before being condemned to death. A life worth living is one spent in wonder, pondering, reflecting, challenging our own and other people’s beliefs, seeking answers to the big questions.