I. Heraclitus
30. Kosmos: the same for all, no man or god has made, but it ever was and ever will be: fire everliving, kindled in measures and in measures going out.
Here, Heraclitus reveals his paradoxical thinking about the nature of the universe. Continue Reading...
Marx, Darwin, Heraclitus, And Parmenides
Charles Darwin and Karl Marx were separated geographically and sociologically. These two individuals had much in common in their youth. They were both born to wealthy European families and were thus privilege Continue Reading...
Philosophy Matrix II
Ancient Quest for Truth
Philosophy Matrix II: Ancient Quest for Truth
Use the matrix to analyze Plato and Aristotle's theory of knowledge and apply both to current day practices.
In the first column, using the readings about Continue Reading...
This idea was accepted by most of the philosophical schools of the time, including the Atomists.
Plato took quite a different approach and found that ideas, as noted, and saw idas as existing outside of human consciousness. Plato's doctrine of reco Continue Reading...
Philosophers of Ancient Greece
Ancient Greece offers a plethora of great thinkers all of whom contributed greatly to understanding the mysteries of natural and unnatural phenomena. From the Pre-Socratic era to the Classical Age of thought, we come a Continue Reading...
Platonic Dualism
Although Plato is a major figure in the history of philosophy and a comparatively large number of his works have been preserved, it is important to place him in his proper historical context in order to address certain elements of h Continue Reading...
Too many leaders today do not see much as necessarily bad or good, and they simply go through their life without realizing there is so much more out there to be done and seen, just like the people in Plato's Cave. They have blinders on -- some of w Continue Reading...
Socrates and Pythagoras
Pythagoras:
Pythagoras was born in 569 BC in Samos, to Mnesarchus of Tyre and Pythias of Samos. Mnesarchus was a merchant and so Pythagoras had the opportunity to visit many lands as a child traveling with his father. Beside Continue Reading...
Science, Religion, And the Making of the Modern Mind: Plato and Aristotle
The question of whether or not knowledge is identical to mere true belief goes as far back as Plato, as he argued that correct judgment, though a necessity for knowledge, is n Continue Reading...