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9 hours ago · Philosophy (from Greek: φιλοσοφία, philosophia, 'love of wisdom') [1] [2] is the systematized study of general and fundamental questions, such as those concerning existence, reason, knowledge, values, mind, and language.

May 30, 2023 · Article. Plato of Athens (424 or 423 to 347 BCE) was an ancient Greek philosopher whose work is considered so important that he may be called the inventor of philosophy as we understand the term today. Some people would want to reserve that honor for his teacher, Socrates, but since Socrates wrote nothing himself for publication, we only have ...

May 25, 2023 · Darwin’s main philosophical influence was John Herschel. Herschel’s interests were wide ranging, but he made two primary contributions to Darwin’s thought. First, he characterized the problem facing naturalists in the terms which Darwin took them up – i.e., the problem of how to explain the emergence of various species over time.

May 30, 2023 · How history shaped philosophy. Why was a very specific 600-year period necessary for the Axial Age to take off? A bit of history helps explain.

1 day ago · Aristotle ( / ˈærɪstɒtəl /; [1] Greek: Ἀριστοτέλης Aristotélēs, pronounced [aristotélɛːs]; 384–322 BC) was an Ancient Greek philosopher and polymath. His writings cover a broad range of subjects spanning the natural sciences, philosophy, linguistics, economics, politics, psychology and the arts.

1 day ago · Descartes has often been called the father of modern philosophy, and is largely seen as responsible for the increased attention given to epistemology in the 17th century.

1 day ago · Socrates ( / ˈsɒkrətiːz /; [1] Greek: Σωκράτης; c. 470 –399 BC) was a Greek philosopher from Athens who is credited as the founder of Western philosophy and among the first moral philosophers of the ethical tradition of thought. [2]

May 13, 2023 · 428 episodes. Peter Adamson, Professor of Philosophy at the LMU in Munich and at King's College London, takes listeners through the history of philosophy, "without any gaps." The series looks at the ideas, lives and historical context of the major philosophers as well as the lesser-known figures of the tradition. www.historyofphilosophy.net.

May 31, 2023 · Abstract. This paper argues that Margaret Cavendish is a metaphysical deflationist about life. That is, it claims that, in Cavendish's mature philosophy, life is no metaphysical kind. From this it also follows that claims about matter being alive play no role in Cavendish's (natural) philosophy. On my reading, living is identical with (natural ...

May 16, 2023 · In Germany, the ideas of individual uniqueness ( Einzigkeit) and self-realization—in sum, the Romantic notion of individuality—contributed to the cult of individual genius and were later transformed into an organic theory of national community.

May 13, 2023 · Peter Adamson, Professor of Philosophy at the LMU in Munich and at King's College London, takes listeners through the history of philosophy, "without any gaps". www.historyofphilosophy.net.