The idea of a Utopian state remains a subject of controversy and that of debate today. This is mainly due to the belief by many…
Ghazali occupies a prominent position in the history of Islam. He has been referred to as the Ornament of Faith, the Proof of Islam, and…
Plato, the great philosopher, held a lot of views on different aspects of life. He had opinions about politics, friendship, and love. There are a…
When you talk of great philosophers from the Western world, the name Peter Abelard will surely be mentioned. The name may not be as famous…
Imagine yourself as a citizen living in ancient Greece. You and your friends have agreed to meet and spend the afternoon listening to the teachings…
A lot of great scholars have contributed tremendously towards the growth and development of science through their writing. And one of such scholars whose writing…
The name Plato should not be strange to any student of philosophy as it is known and revered worldwide. Plato was a Greek philosopher who…
George Berkely was a famous philosopher in the early modern era. He alongside David Hume and John Locke is regarded as the most important Empiricists…
According to Oxford philosopher A.J Ayer, “The popular conception of a philosopher as one who combines universal learning with the direction of human conduct was…
African philosophy has been a subject of discussion for many years. Western philosophy is what many people are familiar with because Western civilization originated from…
Karl Marx was a celebrated philosopher whose impressive works had inspired many communist regimes, especially in the twentieth century. Popularly known as a philosopher, Marx…
African philosophy has been a subject of discussion for many years. Western philosophy is what many people are familiar with because Western civilization originated from…
David Hume was a Scottish philosopher, essayist, historian, and economist. He is considered as one of the most influential thinkers to write in English. Hume…
In 400BC, Democritus a Greek mathematician devised a way to solve mathematical problems. His idea involved using infinitesimals i.e. little packets of distance or time…
Faith and reason are authoritative sources on which beliefs can be based. The reason is believed to be the doctrine for a practical inquest, be…
It is a fact that both the Chinese and Western philosophy have contributed immensely to human civilization. For instance, without Western philosophers like Aristotle, Plato,…
Around the time Jean-Jacques Rousseau was born, there were many philosophers with many theories already in existence. Socrates, Aristotle, and Plato were the pioneers of…
To most scholars and students of philosophy, the name Aristotle elicits a mixture of reverence and awe. This is because this man is known to…
The transcendentalism movement started in New England in the 1830s and continued from then until the 1850s. Many philosophers were involved in this movement including…
Peter Abelard – the best logician of the medieval era – was a French theologian, philosopher, and preeminent scholar. This philosophical genius was regarded as…