Philosophy

4 09, 2017

Plotinus and the Neoplatonists – Roman philosophy

By |2017-09-04T11:34:58-07:00September 4th, 2017|Philosophy, Romans|Comments Off on Plotinus and the Neoplatonists – Roman philosophy

Bust of Plotinus (Ostia, ca. 250 AD) Around the time of Jesus, philosophers (and regular people) in West Asia and the Roman Empire started to think a lot about what happened to you after you died. [...]

16 08, 2017

Epicurean philosophy – ancient Greece

By |2019-05-30T08:55:42-07:00August 16th, 2017|Greeks, Philosophy|Comments Off on Epicurean philosophy – ancient Greece

A statue of the philosopher Epicurus, carved later, long after he died - Epicurean philosophy When did Epicurus live? Another philosophical group which developed in the Hellenistic period, around the same time as [...]

14 08, 2017

Thomas Paine – American Philosophy

By |2017-08-14T13:00:34-07:00August 14th, 2017|North America, Philosophy|Comments Off on Thomas Paine – American Philosophy

Thomas Paine (by Matthew Pratt, about 1790) In the late 1700s AD, around the same time that Voltaire, du Chatelet, and Rousseau were writing philosophy in France, and Hume was writing in England, Thomas Paine was [...]

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