Philosophical reflections on life, death, and the meaning of life Philosophical Implications of the Size and Age of the Uni(Multi)verse December 15, 2024Science & Philosophy The size (and age) of the universe induces within me both awe and a feeling of incredible insignificance. Here’s what...
Many scientists think that philosophy has no place, so for me it's a sad time because the role of reflection, contemplation, meditation, self inquiry, insight, intuition, imagination, creativity, free will, is in a way not given any importance, which is the domain of philosophers. — Deepak...
Socrates believed the best way for people to live was to focus on self-development rather than the pursuit of material wealth.The idea that humans possessed certain virtues formed a common thread in Socrates ’s teachings.These virtues represented the most important qualities a person to have ...
On this view, work in philosophical history is distinctive in that it is a way of doing philosophy, and its form is shaped by the value of doing philosophy in this way. At the same time, doing philosophy historically requires that we attempt to understand the philosophical past, a task tha...
The truth is,reading philosophical books can grant you with a level of self-awareness that’s essential to have in order to live a healthy life. While it can be scary to engage in introspection, it's important to do if you want to live authentically. ...
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prefigured by the domain of practical activity, this narrator configures the philosophical tradition anew with the hopes of reconfiguring his or her interlocutors by means of a philosophical catharsis.;Philosophy as a form of self-transformation promises to answer Socrates' question: how...
Descent of Socrates : self-knowledge and cryptic nature in the Platonic dialogues Since the appearance of Plato's Dialogues, philosophers have been preoccupied with the identity of Socrates and have maintained that successful interpretat... PA Warnek,I Ebrary - 《Journal of Early Christian Studies...
Reality is a blind, irrational will, objectifying itself as man and the phenomena of his world. This will is Kant's "thing-in-itself" but can be introspectively and intuitively known. In man, the will becomes self-conscious and presents to itself by construction a phenomenal world of ideas...
This is the law of the jungle, the war of which Hobbes wrote. Socrates asks whether there is something beyond this, that simply ruling by force is not the end of everything. Isn't there something more noble than this? Not everyone is strong physically; everyone has their own talent. A...