HoP 023 - MM McCabe on Knowledge in Plat...

La Rochefoucauld and other “moralists” offer a penetrating and witty critique of human pride, selfishness, and hypocrisy. Is this just cynicism, or does it support a positive ethic? 

How the French formal garden embodied both Cartesian philosophy and the political ideology of the French monarchy. 

How philosophy at the universities evolved in response to Cartesianism and the “new science.” 

Dans cette série on analyse les citations des plus grands philosophes ! #philosophie #baccalauréat 

In this week's episode, we learn about Plato's "Symposium", which you might think of as philosophy's version of fan fiction. We also learn about Plato's "Theory of Forms" and ask ourselves what makes a tree, well, a tree. This leads to discussion of Plato's famous "Allegory of th ... Show More

<p>Is philosophy an unbiased quest for the true account of the world?</p><p>From Plato to Aristotle, Russell to Wittgenstein, we traditionally see philosophers as engaged in the disinterested pursuit of truth: a view philosophers themselves are inclined to encourage. But in a pos ... Show More

<p>Platón fue un filósofo griego antiguo nacido en Atenas durante el período clásico, fundó la Academia, una escuela filosófica donde enseñó las doctrinas filosóficas que más tarde se conocerían como platonismo.</p> <p>Junto con su maestro, Sócrates, y su alumno Aristóteles, Plat ... Show More

‏كتاب يعرض كيفية فهم نظريات فلسفة التاريخ 

Jacques Derrida was the superstar philosopher of the 1980s and 90s. Often associated with the philosophical movement known as 'poststructualism', he made the enigmatic statement that 'There is nothing outside the text'. Today, one conspiracy theorist has commented that he studied ... Show More

‏كتاب يعرض كيفية التعامل مع نظريات فلسفة التاريخ 

‏كتاب يعرض كيفية التعامل مع نظريات فلسفة التاريخ 

‏كتاب يعرض كيفية التعامل مع نظريات فلسفة التاريخ