Philosophy

Zeno of Elea was a disciple of Parmenides and a fellow Eleatic. He followed his master’s theory of monism and designed to show that any postulation that opposed the monistic teaching of Parmenides leads to contradiction and absurdity. Parmenides had argued using...

Paradoxes have always been of fundamental value to philosophers in presenting the peculiarities of a concept. For example, the renowned ‘liar paradox’ which came from Epimenides of Crete asserts that ‘Cretans are always liars'. The paradox in its most basic form...

A century later, following the rise of philosophy, the question “what is the world made of” continued to be of major concern for philosophers. It was then, that Empedocles of Akragas reasoned with his theory of the four elements which was later unconditionally...

Leucippus and his students Democritus were the forefathers of today’s theory of atoms. However, in that era, their theory was not as widely accepted as the theory of Empedocles – the four elements. The duo asserted that every material in the universe can be reduced to...

In the late 5th century BCE, Athens emanated as the first unconventional polis of mainland Greece. It was a time of great socio-economic reforms and the center of significant military, trading and political power made its home in Athens. It also became the foremost...

With political growth and democracy, a new legal system was introduced in Athens. To quell the requisite knowledge in this era a group called sophists of lecturers, writers, and teachers came into being in the 5th and 4th centuries BCE, most of whom traveled about...

By far the most eminent philosopher to arrive in the Athenian era of philosophy, Socrates, was the first critic of the Sophists and their methods. He condemned them for charging to share wisdom and stated that philosophical inquiry is not merely a debate on should win...

It is self-evident that pre-Socratic thinkers were more concerned with metaphysical regularities in philosophy rather than human nature itself. It was Socrates who first established the concepts of moral philosophy, regardless of his criticism which was still inspired...

Perhaps the greatest truth that human life holds was Socrates’ last words. During his search for meaning, Socrates wrote no accounts, found no institute, and only held a small group of followers. Yet he was known all over Athens and became the most influential...

The key concept that is investigated in moral philosophy and was prompted by Socrates was the answer to the question ‘what is a good life?’. Eudemonia – also spelled as Eudaimonia or Eudaemonia – is what the Greek philosophers came to terms with as the universally...