Thomas Hobbes was born on April 5, 1588, in Malmesbury, England. Though his father disappeared when he was young, Hobbes’s uncle paid for his education, and...
One of the most famous paradoxes in philosophy that is still widely discussed to this day comes from the ancient Greek philosopher Eubulides of Miletus, from...
In the philosophical debate over the nature of time, the A-theory is the view held among contemporary philosophers that there exist such intrinsic and indivisible properties...
Thought and Reason Descartes is most famous for his statement “Cogito ergo sum,” translated as “I think; therefore I am.” According to Descartes, the act of...
René Descartes is considered by many to be the father of modern philosophy. He was born in 1596 in the small French town of La Haye,...
Social Relations Hegel agreed with Kant’s notion that being conscious of an object also implies one is being self-conscious (because to be conscious of an object...
Prior to Hegel’s work, the word dialectic was used to describe the process of arguing and refuting in order to determine the first principles (like the...
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel’s father wished for his son to become a clergyman. Hegel enrolled in the seminary at the University of Tübingen in 1788 and...
In epistemology, philosophers examine the nature, origins, and limits of knowledge. The questions raised in epistemology are: How can one gain knowledge? What are the limits...
In his Two Treatises of Government, Locke details his beliefs on human nature and politics. The anchor to Locke’s political philosophy was the notion that humans...
