Philosophy

It is rather obvious how religion and philosophy are two distinct domains of thought to seek answers and justifications about human existence and the universe. Religion solely depends upon a belief system and divine revelation while philosophy is more humane and based...

The analysis of great philosophical works reveals that their scientific attempt is also significant. In fact, philosophy is the predecessor of modern science. Until the medieval ages, the separation between philosophy and science was not this clear as is. However,...

The cradle in which the roots of Western philosophy grew is undoubtedly ancient Greece. The expeditious growth of Greek civilization and culture in the 6th century BCE was nothing short of a period of profound expansion for the human race. While the time is dated back...

Thales of Miletus, generally called the first philosopher and renowned as one of the legendary Seven Wise Men, or Sophoi, of antiquity, is remembered primarily for his cosmology based on water as the essence of all matter, with Earth a flat disk floating on a vast...

Thales continued his legacy by passing on his ideals to his pupils by founding the Milesian school of philosophy – the first formal institute where philosophy could be taught. This wasn’t his only contribution, at this school he and his students indulged in...

Similar to how Anaximander presented a series of questions to Thales’ theory that remained unanswered, most philosophical debates never lead to a certain conclusion. The reason behind this is that once they ask ‘What supports this?’, it leads to an incessant chain of...

Heraclitus, like Thales, was a solitary thinker known for his theory of the ‘unity of opposites. Though he was primarily concerned with explanations of the world around he also advocated for concepts like social harmony. Most of his works (which failed to survive to...

Pythagoras was born in 570 BCE, in Ionia, Greece. He was the one of his kind Greek philosopher, mathematician, and founder of the Pythagorean brotherhood, a religious movement he initiated in Italy. He established the principles which later inspired the thoughts of...

Another distinguished Ionian philosopher, Xenophanes, was the first one to produce evidence-based philosophical arguments. He traveled through many Greek colonies and studied the works of philosophers before him. Soon he crafted his own theory of cosmic composition...

In the 5th century, the center of philosophy moved to Italy. Parmenides, a Greek philosopher of Elea in southern Italy was the one who founded Eleaticism – the leading pre-Socratic school of Greek thought. His general teaching has been preserved and revised from a...