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49Basics of Philosophy
What is philosophy and what's the role of it today ? Does it still matter ? This hub talks about basics of philsophies from the ancient times to the modern.
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74Links Between Eastern and Western Philosophies and Modern Science
This hub touches on some similarities between the philosophies and science.
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63Philosophy of Plato: A Brief Summary
The philosophy of Plato is that reality is spiritual in nature. Each man has a soul that is chained to their body and it is freed at death.
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74Anyone can think
What do you think? That's basically all that philosophers did in life. Great names of classical Greek philosophers like Plato, Aristotle, and Epictetus. I suppose back in the times of ancient Greece these same gentlemen would of been known today as...
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69The True Role of Plato’s Allegory of the Cave
This essay will provide an argument and evidence for the proposition that Plato’s famous allegory of the cave plays multiple roles and can be understood as a reference to Plato’s theory of the forms, as a metaphor for the process an intellectual...
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80Human Evil in Greek Philosophy: Plato and Aristotle
For Plato, evil is the symptom of a metaphysical revolt against the conditions of one's creation. Humans are quite elevated in whom evil must be fixable in some way. If we should design our social order in a way which is not rendering us susceptible to evil, we might overcome it. For Aristotle, evil is a mundane challenge of organizing our relatively messed-up natures. People are composed of mind and flesh in whom evil occurs naturally.
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70Why the Greeks Executed Socrates
Do you know yourself? Or are you one of Them, who put me to death for asking such a question.
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71How far are we from a dystopia?
As children of democracies, we assumed too quickly that our environment was democratic. On which basis? Our pertaining to the league of the West? The champions? Compared to what? The other oppressed countries? What is oppression? Isn't it an...
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61A Film about Conversion and Justice in the Old West
The 1st Place Winner of the University of Dallas 2012 Tower Film Festival. Themes include conversion and the just life. This is just the beginning...
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71How Issues Become Politicized
Why is everything politicized? From the most mundane of matters to the most consequential, Americans are increasingly divided on every issue. Politician A claims that babies need the proper nutrition in order to develop most effectively and Politician B counters that this will mean higher taxes, which are assumed to be never acceptable. It seems that there is no issue today that will not attract a debate from somewhere. Settled issues are increasingly subject to attack, and the situation does
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