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…
History, as the saying goes, is an excellent teacher and so is the life of every great man or woman. We have a lot to…
Plato is one of the most prominent people that influenced many philosophical ideas we have in our generation today. He laid the foundation of Western…
Parmenides was one of the most challenging thinkers in the history of Greek philosophy. His most impressive work On Nature, a metaphysical poem, has undoubtedly…
The ancient Greek philosopher Plato had a strong influence on western culture and philosophy. He started the foundation on which western philosophy and science are…
Heraclitus was one of the greatest philosophers among Greek philosophers. He grew up in the Greek city of Ephesus, which is found around the western…
Saint Augustine is a philosopher and theologian whose works have contributed to the development of Christianity and philosophy in the Western world. He combined the…
Confucius was a great Chinese philosopher that was born during the period of philosophical thinking. It was the norm during his era for people to…
Karl Marx was a man whose renown grew all over the globe. Of all the social theorists of the 19th century, Karl Marx is the…