A few questions to ponder
Please give these questions some time and really think about them. They are questions that Plato asked. I’ll later on write the answers he came with and how these answers were developed by later Philosophers.
Is an act moral because God says it is moral or does God recommend the act because [...]
Alfred North Whitehead, the great British philosopher-mathematician, once commented that all philosophy is but a footnote to Plato. Of course he should have said that all Western philosophy is but a footnote to Plato, but we all live in our own cultural milieu of prejudices.
Even if Whitehead may have been exaggerating the fact is [...]
I’m one of those bums who never studied philosophy academically. I studied hard sciences like chemistry, biochemistry and brain sciences. I did go to a meeting at the London University Humanist Society given by the logical positivist Gilbert Ryle. But this was very safe as positivism is absolute fundamentalist materialism and at this time as [...]
