Who was Epicurus?
Epicurus (341-270 BC) was an influential Greek philosopher active during the Hellenistic period, and the founder of Epicureanism. This period was home to several schools of philosophy in competition with […]
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Category Archives: Philosophy
What was Aristotle’s Idea of God?
God as the Unmoved Mover In his Metaphysics, Aristotle reasoned that everything that is in motion owes its movement to something else. He observed the night skies where he witnessed […]
What is Daoism?
Daoism (also referred to as Taoism) is a Chinese philosophy credited to the legendary figure Laozi (also referred to as Lao Tzu) who historians think might have lived either in […]
What is Confucianism?
Confucianism, sometimes viewed as a religion and sometimes as a philosophy, traces back to the sayings and biographical fragments attributed to the Chinese philosopher Confucius (551-479 BC) recorded in the […]
What was Plato’s Theory of Forms?
Plato’s Theory of Forms refers to an ideal version (which he called a Form or an Idea) of something of which all objects within the physical world are merely imitations […]
What is Teleological (Consequentialist) Ethics?
Teleological ethics (also known as consequentialism) comes from the Greek word “telos” which means goal. It argues that the moral rightness of an action is determined by the maximization of […]
What was the Golden Age of Chinese Philosophy and its Four Major Schools?
Chinese philosophy boasts a lengthy conceptual history spanning several thousand years. Within this stretch of time there came about a golden era of Chinese philosophy in which four major schools […]
What is Immanuel Kant’s Categorical Imperative?
The categorical imperative was German Philosopher Immanuel Kant’s (1724-1804) way of devising a set of requirements that a maxim (or motivation) has to pass through in order for an action […]
Karl Popper – Philosopher of Science
Karl Popper (1902 – 1994) was perhaps the most influential philosopher of science active during the 20th century remembered for his works on the scientific method and politics (1). Some […]
Walter Benjamin, and Philosophical Theories of Law and Human Violence
Introduction This paper engages Walter Benjamin’s (1892-1940) essay On the Critique of Violence (1921) with particular emphasis on Benjamin’s understanding of law and violence, his concept of divine violence, and […]
