Zeno Zeno, born in Elea, in southwestern Italy, in the 5th century BC was a Greek mathematician and philosopher of the Eleatic School. He became a favorite disciple of the philosopher Parmenides and accompanied him to Athens at the age of about... Read More
Parmenides and The Eleatic School
Parmenides Parmenides was a Greek philosopher, considered by many scholars as the greatest member of the Eleatic School. He is said to have visited Athens at the age of sixty-five, and on that occasion the philosopher Socrates, then a young man, heard... Read More
Epicureanism and Epicurus
Epicurus 341 – 270 BC In 306 BC Epicurus founded a philosophical school in Athens. Because his followers met in a garden of his home they became known as “philosophers of the garden”. Epicurus adopted the atomistic physics of... Read More
The Ionian School of Greek Philosophy
Greek philosophy may be divided between those men who sought an explanation of the world in physical terms and those who stressed the importance of nonmaterial forms or ideas. The first important school of Greek philosophy, the Ionian or Milesian, was... Read More
The origins of the modern world, Robert B. Marks
The Origins of the Modern World: A Global and Ecological Narrative from the Fifteenth to the Twenty-first Century (World Social Change) I loved this book: it really helps put our present world into perspective: globalization has been going on for... Read More
Best Wittgenstein Books
This is really a double review. I read both ‘Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius‘ and ‘How to Read Wittgenstein‘ by Ray Monk. The main take away from the second is that the early Wittgenstein was about trying to show the limitations of... Read More