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90My top 10 philosophy books
This will be, necessarily, a very personal answer to the question asked by Ryan Hupfer about the 10 philosophy books it is essential to read.
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88Greek Philosopher: Socrates
Born in Athens at the peak of the Athenian civilization. Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides were his contemporaries. He served for several years as a soldier. As a member of the Athenian Senate, he refused to...
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7899 Famous People of Ancient History
Abraham, Achilles, Adam, Aechylus, Aesop, Ahura Mazda, Akhenaten, Alexander the Great, Allah, Apollo, Archilochus, Archimedes, Aristotle, Aspasia, Athena, Aten, Attila the Hun, Augustus/Octavian, Bridget of...
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78Philosophy , Philosophers , Sophists
Socrates the greatest of philosopher Thales of Miletus Greek Ionian cities of Asia Minor           Philosophical  thought   and writing were born in the Ionian cities of Asia  Minor....
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75"The Unmoved-Mover" in Aristotle's Metaphysics
Book L of the Metaphysics touches upon what Aristotle calls the "Unmoved Mover." In short, this is Aristotle's conceptualization of God which is worthy of our attention both because of the inherent interest...
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77Greek Philosophy
The story of philosophy begins in Greece. The ancient Greeks provided the world with some of its greatest philosophers. The most famous are Plato (427-347BC) and Aristotle (384-322BC), and Plato's teacher...
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72Greek Philosophy
Philosophy is the study of the truth or principles underlying all knowledge, an investigation into the nature of reality. The word 'philosophy' derives from the Greek philosophos which means "a lover of...
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71Ask Not for Whom the Bell Tolls
It's great to be alive, to breathe fresh air, to hear the robins sing and see the rising sun, to be free, to be part of mankind. Life, despite trials and tribulations, is joyous; it is ethereal, evaporating, sooner or later, into, for the faithful, the heavens.
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72Diogenes: The Real McCoy
With honor and respect this scribe borrows his name.. I apologise in advance for what I realize is going to come as a terrible shock to my huge readership, family, friends and two budgies. It is with deep...
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69Greek Philosopher Socrates
Socrates was a Greek philosopher and moralist. He wrote no philosophical works himself, but the discussions he held with the young men who gathered round him afÂfected profoundly the subsequent development of philosophy, particularly through their influence on Plato. Philosophers before Socrates speculated—naively, though interestingly, about the composition and workings of the natural universe, but Socrates made others conscious of the absence of any agreed standard of truth in such matters.
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