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Pythagoras

August 14, 2019/By Darrell Arnold

RETURN TO TABLE OF CONTENTS Pythagoras Pythagoras was among the most celebrated philosophers of the Antique period. He is attributed both with being “the first to bring to the Greeks philosophy in general” (Isocrates, Ausiris 14.4; qtd in...

The One and the Many — From Thales to Democritus

History of Philosophy

August 14, 2019/By Darrell Arnold

RETURN TO TABLE OF CONTENTS The One and the Many One of the earliest disputes of the Greek naturalists and Eleatics concerned the question of the one and the many -- that is was the substratum...

Heraclitus

Heraclitus, History of Philosophy

August 14, 2019/By Darrell Arnold

RETURN TO TABLE OF CONTENTS Heraclitus More than anything, Heraclitus is known as the philosopher of flux. As is famously attributed to him: “One cannot step in the same river twice" (D 91). Or as he...

Criticisms of Descartes

History of Philosophy, On Reason, Reason

August 14, 2019/By Darrell Arnold

RETURN TO TABLE OF CONTENTS Descartes' influence has been profound. His criticisms of scholasticism and elevation of rational introspection were seminal for Continental Rationalism. His focus on the experience of the individual subject has had...

Descartes: The Father of Modern Philosophy

History of Philosophy, Soul

August 14, 2019/By Darrell Arnold

RETURN TO TABLE OF CONTENTS Rene Descartes (1596-1650) is generally viewed as the "Father of Modern Philosophy." He both leads the rejection of traditional Scholastic thought and develops a mechanistic philosophy to replace the teleological...

Descartes’ Method of Systematic Doubt

History of Philosophy, Mind, On Reason, Soul

August 14, 2019/By Darrell Arnold

RETURN TO TABLE OF CONTENTS Method of Systematic Doubt Descartes is anything but a skeptic. But in his Meditations on First Philosophy he proposes that we meditate with him, reasoning by questioning everything about which we...

Descartes’ Foundationalist Reconstruction

History of Philosophy, Mind, Philosophy, Soul

August 14, 2019/By Darrell Arnold

RETURN TO TABLE OF CONTENTS Descartes' Foundationalism Descartes is known as a foundationalist. A foundationalist thinks we begin our rational reconstruction of our worldview on the basis of a certain foundation. On the basis of what...

Epicurean Hedonism

History of Philosophy, Philosophy

August 13, 2019/By Darrell Arnold

RETURN TO TABLE OF CONTENTS Both Ancient India and Ancient Rome knew various types of hedonists. In India Carvaka proposed that people are and should be motivated by their desire for pleasure. Proponents of Carvaka...

Political Philosophy of the Enlightenment

History of Philosophy, Political Philosophy

August 8, 2019/By Darrell Arnold

RETURN TO TABLE OF CONTENTS Why is any political authority justified? What is the proper role of government? Who should be involved in governmental decision making? How much are individual and social well-being interconnected? Political...

The Enlightenment

History of Philosophy, Humanities, Philosophy

August 7, 2019/By Darrell Arnold

RETURN TO TABLE OF CONTENTS Immanuel Kant (1724-1804), the 18th century German proponent of the Enlightenment, was a latecomer on the scene. But for that, he captures much of the Spirit of the the period...

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