Considering the events that occurred in the United States recently, the mathematical and humanistic orientation should be used to advise the U.S. citizens and help them deal with their problems.The mathematical orientation attempted to move from the material level to a general principle for all life...

Pythagoras The Greek philosopher Pythagoras of Samos is responsible of great advances in the study of astronomy, mathematics and the theory of music. A tyrant ruled Samos at the time and Pythagoras fled to southern Italy at about 532 BC. In Croton, Pythagoras founded a religious school that also s...

Although Plato's theory of the ideal world is rather different from Pythagoras philosophy of numbers it shares a lot of the same principles. As Plato came after Pythagoras he took up a lot of Pythagoras's thoughts and believes. What gave rise the Pythagorean sect was the peoples yearnin...

It's a sad but true fact that we as Americans, tend to overlook the accomplishments of other cultures. Throughout the Muslim Golden Age, which flourished from the 9th – 12th centuries, many brilliant Muslims made spectacular contributions that still impact society today. Ibn Rushd, al-Raz...

In 407 B.C Plato, a Greek Philosopher became a student of Socrates. He turned these great teachings of Socrates in to a career of his own. He was a son of wealthy and influential Athenian parents. When his master teacher died, Plato travelled to Egypt and Italy, where he studied with students of ...

Plato, in his work "The Republic," deals with the issue of living a good life. He presents his argument through two questions: what is justice in the state and what is a just individual? These two thought-provoking inquiries naturally bring about many others. One of these questions is: how should th...

Empedocles Empedocles was a major Greek philosopher. This man was born in Agrigentum, Sicily, in 490? - 430 BC. He was not only a philosopher but a statesman, poet, and knowledge of natural history and medicine. After his father's death he extended his career in politics. He favored the democ...

Nietzsche: The Man and His Philosophy The book I read on Friedrich Nietzsche was essentially broken down into four separate parts. Part one of the book consisted of Nietzsche as a child, schoolboy, and a student. The second part of the novel discussed Nietzsche and his life as a profes...

During the Golden Age, Socrates taught in Athens. Socrates was a philosopher – someone who used reason to try and understand the world around them. Socrates wanted people to wonder about qualities, like courage and justice, He would ask students questions so that they would examine the thinkin...

Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime. This is one of the most profound philosophical statements ever made. Aristotle was influenced by the short upbringing of his parents, particularly that of his father, who died when he was only ten years old. His father was a doctor. Aristotle was ra...

Plato's educational system is based on an ideal aristocratic society. According to Garth Kemerling's website, www.philosophypages.com (2002), Plato's aristocratic government is one that is ideally efficient. Under such a society, its guardians, the potential leaders of society, are &q...

ABU HAMID AL-GHAZALI Abu Hamid Al-Ghazali (1058-1111 CE) is regarded by scholars as an Islamic intellectual giant. He is one of the greatest teachers and interpreters of Islam, other than Muhammad. Born in 1058 CE in Tus, (in what is now known as Khorasan, Iran), he was a well educated man, havin...

Most people are familiar with the greatest minds in philosophy such as Aristotle, Plato, or even John Locke. In reality, most well-known philosophers happen to be male. Women philosophers such as Hannah Arendt and Susanne Langer have faded from textbooks and have been somewhat forgotten as the decad...

The eighteenth century\'s most exciting intellectual movement is called the Enlightenment. It\'s powerful dedication to reason and rational thought that until quite recently the era was sometimes characterized as the Age of Reason. The turn toward what became known by 1750 as the Enlightenment began...

Over the course of history there have been many great philosophers with different views on reality. Rene Descartes, a renound philosopher of his time, was born near Tours on March 31, 1596, and died at Stockholm on February 11, 1650.Descartes made many contributions to philosophy, although there are...

Descartes Descartes believed that we should ask what it would mean to know about reality, and to examine what reality meant. He claims that unless we know first whether our belief itself is justified we can't know. To determine whether our beliefs are justified, we have to be able to trace them back...

While the great philosophical distinction between mind and body in western thought can be traced to the Greeks, it is to the seminal work of Rene Descartes (1596-1650) [see figure 1], French mathematician, philosopher, and physiologist, that we owe the first systematic account of the mind/body rela...

Most definitions of philosophy have been fairly controversial partly because what has been called philosophy has changed drastically in the course of history. What used to be a part of the philosophical inquiries detached themselves from it. This is why most academic subject began as some aspect as ...

Understanding the World through the Study of Knowledge The study of knowledge, better known as epistemology, is the area of philosophy that investigates the nature, sources, limitations, and validity of knowledge. Epistemology was brought about during the time of the Enlightenment during the 17th-...

Prof. AmbuelRegarding the Interaction Involving Mind and BodyDescartes was a fervent supporter of dualism. However, having argued that the mind and body are two completely different substances, he still believed that they were capable of causal interaction. Claming that the essence of matter is defi...

Philosophical LanguageLanguage expands your mind and your world. The philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein once said, "The limits of my language are the limits of my world." Barbara Mellix might think that Wittgenstein said this merely because of his race and whereabouts. Mellix is a black woman who gr...

As one of the greatest Greek philosophers, Socrates had a passionateconcern to discover valid guidelines for leading a just life and to provethat justice is better than injustice under all circumstances which ineffect gave a new direction to Greek philosophy and teaching. Compared tomost of hi...

FUTURE OCCURENCES In An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, David Hume demonstrates how there is no rational way to make any claims about future occurrences. According to his way of thinking, knowledge of matters of fact comes from previous experience. From building on this rationale, Hume goes ...

The Divine Command Theory states that God is the ultimate source ofmorality and the abandonment or lack of belief in Him results in, or islargely liked to, the many social problems in the world (Schlick, Jr 2003).It says that something is good because God wills it. His commands andinstructions...

Theories Of Right And WrongWhen a person is born, they do not know the difference between right and wrong. The word philosophy means the love of knowledge. In order to gain any substantial amount of knowledge, people must question the events in the world around them by asking how or why questions. ...