Western philosophy

Globalization has a wide role to play worldwide. It has left back its footprints at every sphere of life. Not only in India, but the interchange of world views and ideas have resulted in a major transformation of the lifestyle and living standard of people globally. Indian culture is no bar to this transformation process. Our deep rooted traditions and customs have loosened up their hold with the emergence of globalization. India has a rich cultural background and pride of its culture is famous…

Socrates is a standard Greek philosopher born in 470 BC, in Athens, Greece. He was known through the writing of his students, including Plato and Xenophon, he was also known as a classical Greek philosopher qualified as one of the founders of western philosophy. Socrates received a basic Greek education and worked as a mason for many years before he dedicated his life to philosophy.He was married Xanthippe, who gave him three children; Lamprocles, Sophroniscus and Menexenus. Anyhow, Socrates…

When the term modern philosophy is brought up, one would think of findings in the field from the 1900’s and onward. But upon looking into the subject one would find that modern philosophy starts a few hundred years back. In the 1600’s modern and western philosophy started taking root with the ideas of a great philosopher of the time, Rene Descartes. Often known as the father of modern philosophy, Descartes’, ideas and findings are greatly influential to many different fields of study today. On…

It can be seen that Jain philosophy is dualistic but is not a radical dualism with respect to Descartes dualism. Descartes has treated soul as an object of knowledge, however according to Jainism self is both the subject and the object of the knowledge. Also, Descartes had reduces self only to the ‘rational self’, which is confined to human beings as animals do not have a soul due to the lack of conscience. It can be seen that Jain philosophy answers the problem to the relation of abstract…

I will be writing about Bertrand Russell’s “The Value of Philosophy” and Plato’s The Apology. These readings were written by two very important and valued philosophers who made a huge impact on the philosophical community throughout time. “The Value of Philosophy” is Russell’s point of view when it comes to philosophy. The Apology is Plato’s version of the trial of Socrates, so the reading is about what Socrates believed was philosophy. This essay will discuss the views, values, similarities…

Western philosophy began in the 6th century BCE in ancient Greece. These first philosophers that we know of are called “Pre-Socratics”, meaning they came before Socrates. Socrates’ philosophical prowess, however, brought forth a time that freedom of self-consciousness was first challenged. In my opinion, Socrates was the first philosopher to distinguish the value of philosophy even though they were just mere thoughts of men. In Bertrand Russell’s “The Value of Philosophy”, he addresses the very…

my horizons and started to look at life and philosophy in a whole new light. He has contributed so much to philosophy from finding the world 's first university to his studies on epistemology, ethics, and a variety of different subjects. His work has inspired a variety of other great philosophers, such as Aristotle and David Hume. Plato paved the way for how we do philosophy and what philosophy is really about. His work extends to every area of philosophy…

NTRODUCTION of philosophy: Those stories from claiming theory Previously, Western progress starts to aged Greece, which generated three of the world’s best thinkers, namely, Socrates, Plato and aristotle. Same time it might a chance to be decent on start our contemplate with Socrates, the primary unmistakable figure in the history for philosophy, those truth is that Socrates didn't make as much sees from dainty air. Rather, he might have been those outgrowth of a strikingly ripe philosophical…

Now Plato was much more precise and calculated in his approaches but also reminisced with the idea of religious romantic elements. The shadow cave story is the best example to explain Plato’s way of philosophy: Prisoners were once kept in a cave and were shown images on the wall that were cast by the shadows created by a fire in the cave. These shadows showed them how a cat, table, chair etc. looked like. In their minds these were the archetypical example…

well-known scientists is not even an actual scientist, he was actually a philosopher. Aristotle was an ancient Greek Philosopher between circa 384- 322b.c.e. Aristotle and fellow Philosophers, Socrates and Plato, were the builders for much of western philosophy. (Biography.com 1) Aristotle was born circa 384b.c.e. in Stagira in northern Greece. He was from a traditional medical family. Aristotle's father, Nicomachus, was a court…