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Articles About Western Philosophy
by Lance Winslow
The history of Western Philosophy is indeed of interest in understanding
modern society and civilizations. The book; Handbook in the History
of Western Philosophy is comparable to reading about 1500 pages
of Wikipedia on the subject. Indeed having done both now, I would
say that I recommend reading this book by Albert E. Avey.
by Lance Winslow
There are many who are critical of Western Philosophy and yet those
who have spent a life-time studying the subject remind the critics
that it is not the philosophy that is wrong, rather it is often
misused by its practitioners.
by Lance Winslow
Have you ever debated with a philosophy professor? Indeed, many
only answer your question with information from dead white men philosophers
in history, people that they have never actually even met. How could
they have, as the philosophers have perished 100s if not 1000s of
years ago? We only have a record of what they said or are said to
have said.
by Lance Winslow
Western Philosophy has deep roots that go back as far a Babylonian
and Egyptian days and it has a strong secondary foundation of Greek
Philosophy as well. Yet much of the philosophy after than tends
to come from a religious slant where God created man and this realm,
as a universal given. If you look at the names of the dead white
men that we study in Western Philosophy these comments will seem
more obvious to you.
by Ryan Dowd
Socrates was the first of the three famous Athenian philosophers
(the other two being Aristotle and Plato). Born in the Greek capital
in the year 469 BC, he lived during the reign of Pericles at a time
when the Athenian empire was at its peak.
by Ryan Dowd
Plato is renowned as one of the world's greatest philosophers. Born
in 429 BC around the time of the death of Pericles, he lived for
nearly eighty years up until the period that began with the birth
of Alexander the Great.
by Ryan Dowd
Aristotle was born in northern Greece in the village of Stagira.
He became the most accomplished product of Plato's educational system,
spending twenty years of his life at Plato's academy.
by William Nugent
A brief history of the confrontation between Socrates and the Sophist
philosophers in ancient Athens. A discussion of the concept of absolute
truth contrasting it with modern and postmodern philosophy. Proof
that the Bible is the ultimate source of absolute truth.
by C. Jines
Plato and Aristotle Many people often ask about the differences
between the philosophy of Plato and that of Aristotle. Today in
America, those with any sort of religious association at all are
familiar, either consciously or unconsciously, with St. Augustine
and Plato. But when it comes to Aristotle not much is known.
by Gerald Marchewka
Perhaps Epicurus had it right. A life surrounded by friends, ample
amounts of warm sensuous pleasure and rich lurid reflections of
carnal experience may be the essential ingredients for the good
life. So perhaps the ascetics had it all wrong.
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