Pre-Socratics vs Sophists

Well, there’s a classical philosophical sight: you can classify European history of philosophy for a couple of periods starting with Milesian school in the beginning and till 20th-century modern philosophy. If we’re using this one, where the main criteria of classification are age…

On the ontology, multiverse, existentialism and time

Each philosophical branch is using its own ontological base. In my opinion, existentialist is the most progressive one. In future, I will tell you…

The Decade of Failed Revolutions

Another decade has come to an end, and yes, I have realized that a bit too late. Therefore, I decided…

Work for the philosophy majors

At universities all around the world, there are thousands of fields of study to choose from that offer tangible skills. Coding and business management, for example, are often pointed to as among the best majors for students to choose from. But what about majoring in…

From Thales to Pythagoreans

Nowadays when somebody hears “philosophy” s/he imagines a different kind of religion, tale or story about difficult questions, told using complicated words. But what does…

Aristotle

In his day, Plato and his “ideals,” made a lot of noise and allowed him to abundant opportunities to teach his ism. At its height, there were many students of his Academia (which was just a fluid version of a school, where pupils followed the teacher all day long). However, one student in particular would…

Delusions and Gnoseology

Faith delusions: are they providence of god’s influence or a just big portion of DMT produced by our own mind? We’re trying to explain all extraordinary things with possible decisions, decisions which we can accept. But is it harder to accept simple chemical reaction than big powerful…

Evolution Coffee Break

We are living the same as in the ancient times. Nowadays, we are animals called “human”. I can assure you that we have to evolve to super-humans. If you don’t like this word, try non-animal human (do many people remember Nietzsche? Nazi guys said that their ideas were based on his…

Eleatic School

We still got stuck in Ancient Greece, but now we’re going to Velia, place where the Eleatic philosophy school was formed. And this is the third highly important group of ideas from Greece before Plato and Aristotle times. Xenophanēs (6–5 age before c.) said that there are no gods, but only one. That’s…

Perfect Crime: Christian representation of Plato’s ideas

We have considered the best parts of philosophy but as everything else, it has certain disadvantages. As I said before, when Christian ideology gained power and became dominant European ideology, it had to make and keep its…