Its a school of philosophy that taught people(for a price) how to argue. They were not held in high regard, as the idea was to win the argument rather than to find the truth. But the context of this teaching was to argue your case at a court hearing.
Published on Nov 21, 2024
(Paradigm) provides a map whose details are elucidated by nature scientific research. And since nature is too complex and varied to be explored a random, that map is as essential as observation and experimentation to science's continuing development. thought the theories they embody, paradigms prove to be constitutive of the research activity
Thomas Kuhn, Book: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Published on Sep 24, 2024
Function of thought is to predict, act and problem solve. It is NOT to describe, or represent reality.
Published on Sep 15, 2024
Note: These are still a Work In Progress. Some cleanup required.
Published on Sep 15, 2024
Eastern Philosophy's view of self...
Published on Apr 12, 2024
Different theories of how one person is themselves over time...
Published on Apr 01, 2024
This is a concept in Stoicism. In its simplest form...
Published on Oct 02, 2022
Also called a clockwork universe. We will be in a deterministic universe if everything is predictable. If all actions are the direct result of earlier actions and laws governing interactions between system.
Published on Oct 02, 2022
Stoicism is a Greek philosophy that aims to teach how to be content no matter what the external circumstances are.
Published on Sep 28, 2022
"Aristotelian" ideas are often Scientific, Bottom up, Nature based. This is generally seen as the flip side of "Platonic" - which is Mathematical, idealized/theoritical.
Published on Jan 30, 2022
Everyone has a personal philosophy. Try to make it an intentionally reasoned and chosen one - and not an amalgamation of all that has accumulated in your brain because of the environment that you were in.
Published on Oct 20, 2021
Beliefs should have a defined degree of certainity rather than a binary true/false(like in classical Epistemology).
Published on Aug 30, 2021
Intuition in philosophy is "an indirect way to grasp knowledge and morality". You intuitively know if an action is right or wrong - even though you can't work out why.
Published on Aug 03, 2021
Epistemology means the theory of knowledge. Main questions in Epistemology are...
Published on Aug 03, 2021
Epistemology means the theory of knowledge or study of knowledge. Main questions in Epistemology are...
Published on Aug 03, 2021
There is a difference between knowing and believing...
Published on Aug 03, 2021
Anthropology is the study of humanity. It asks the same questions philosophers have asked - but only questions about humans(Why language? What is morality? etc). But rather than looking inward like philosophy, anthropology studies human cultures to get the the answers. Due to this, the answers Anthropology finds are not universal truths - its the truth of a set of people at a specific point in time.
Published on Apr 19, 2021
The ultimate ideal person according to Friedrich Nietzsche. They have...
Published on Mar 05, 2021
People who says consciousness can't be physical are two type...
Published on Jan 20, 2021
Embodied cognition, the idea that the mind is not only connected to the body but that the body influences the mind (in a way that the two always have to be considered together)
Published on Dec 25, 2020
Existentialism is a philosophical movement that focus on the meaning or purpose of life.
Published on Dec 20, 2020
There are a lot of important problems that are fundamentally insolvable. They can never be solved - but can be outgrown. You can accept the problem - which will reduce the suffering caused by the problem.
Published on Dec 08, 2020
Context: Notes saved from the course I took in Philosophy
Published on Nov 28, 2020
According to Jean-Paul Sartre, everyone has these two features...
Published on Nov 28, 2020
"Aristotelian" ideas are often Scientific, Bottom up, Nature based. This is generally seen as the flip side of "Platonic" - which is Mathematical, idealized/theoritical.
Published on Nov 12, 2020
Eudaimonia is not an emotion, it is more a constant state of being.
Published on Jul 14, 2020