Philosophy

How do we really define Philosophy? The Greek word φιλοσοφία – Philosophia. Or as the term has been coined by modern Western language – Philosophy. The literal meaning of this word is relatively static. Derived from its Greek origin it comprises two separate words...

The forefathers of philosophy and the minds that established the substratum for this school of thought belonged to ancient Greece during the 6th century BCE. The phenomenon was initiated when thinkers began to question conventional explanations regarding the universe,...

During its inception, the greatest subject of interest for early philosophers was: the physical realm and its components, the question of ‘What are things made of?’. In its most basic form, this laid the groundwork for the first branch of philosophy called...

There’s a method in everything. For ancient Greek philosophers, the method of their search, questions, and how they approach the matter of human reasoning became questionable itself as they realized how most of their ventures were collectively starting with a ‘How’...

As stated before, ontology was the first brand service from metaphysics. Ontology is the philosophical study of being in general, it is different from epistemology because it does not question the nature of ‘reality’ but rather asks ‘does reality even exists?’. It was...

The stark contrast between faith and rationality – religion and philosophy – convention and curiosity – is Logic. Although it is often confused with reasoning, logic is the study of correct reasoning, especially as it involves the drawing of inferences. This is the...

Ethics or perhaps moral philosophy is the discipline concerned with what is morally good and bad and morally right and wrong. It wasn’t long after that philosophers realized the need to understand human nature along with the universe.  How should we live? Shall we aim...

A practical branch of philosophy that is concerned, at the most abstract level, with the concepts and arguments that revolve around the political opinion. The meaning of the term political is itself a matter of inquisition in political philosophy. Broadly, however,...

What is art? What is beauty? How do we perceive it?. The philosophy of aesthetics aims to answer these questions and is closely related to the philosophy of art which is concerned with the nature of art and the generalities in terms of which individual works of art...

A subject as rich as philosophy can not possibly be limited to or defined through a single tradition or culture. Although most ideologies dominant in philosophy originated from ancient Greece or other western traditions, eastern philosophies also hold an entity of...