The word philosophy means “love of wisdom.” Indeed, it is a love of wisdom that guides philosophers to explore the fundamental questions about who we are and why we’re here. On the surface, philosophy is a social science.
Philosophy
Philosophy originated in ancient Greece as a discipline of rational inquiry into the nature of reality, knowledge, and existence. Greek philosophers sought to understand the world and their place in it through the use of reason, logic, and critical thinking. They grappled with questions such as: What is the nature of the universe? What is the meaning of life? How can we know what we know? Their ideas and debates have shaped Western philosophy and continue to influence our understanding of the world today.Philosophy is not a belief or a wish. Philosophy is an activity: a quest after wisdom. “Philosophia” is the ancient Greek word for the “love of wisdom”.
The adventure began more than one hundred years before Socrates’s birth, in the sun-baked commercial town of Miletus on the coast of Asia Minor, or modern-day Turkey. In about 585 BCE, a man named Thales amazed his fellow Milesians by correctly predicting an eclipse of the sun.
What is the difference between erotica and pornography? What is the difference between art and pornography? One of the ironies of explicit images that portray sexual scenes is that they are rooted in the religious experiences of most cultures. From the dawn of time, religion and sex have been intertwined. This is especially true of the civilizations of the peoples of the ancient Near East, the region of the world that covers parts of modern- day Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, and Israel.
What is beauty? Why are we so attracted to beauty? Neoplatonism is based upon an axiomatic presupposition that […]
In modern times, spirituality and eroticism seem to be two separate and mutually exclusive concepts. In this article I will focus on ancient Greece and their view of spirituality and eroticism.
One of the questions that has faced and continues to face some of the philosophers of the world is ‘What is reality?’