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Thales of Miletus: The First Philosopher of Greece

By: Joshua Mark

Xenophanes of Colophon: There is Only One God and that is The Universe

By: Joshua Mark

Protagoras' Paradox: Whether You Win or Lose in Court You Still Win - or Do You?

By: Joshua Mark

The Life and Works of John Locke: Locke Influenced Regular Philosophers and Revolutionaries

By: Phillip Burghgraef

Review of Logic – A Very Short Introduction: A Brief Introduction to the Philosophical Discipline of Logic

By: Linda Gentile

Alchemy in the Middle Ages: Plato and the Philosopher's Stone

By: Thais Campos

What is Bertrand Russell's Paradox? The Theory of Types and the Unrestricted Comprehension Axiom

By: Michielle Beck

Differences Between Plato and Bertrand Russell: Analytic Philosophy, Allegory, First-Order Logic, and Human Justice

By: Michielle Beck

Plato on the Nature and Origin of Justice: Plato's Ethics, Allegory, and the Reasons Behind Human Beliefs

By: Michielle Beck

Bertrand Russell's Rejection of Christianity: Why the Philosopher and Mathematician Rejected God in His Life

By: Michielle Beck

Existence Precedes Essence: Jean-Paul Sartre’s Description of the Human Condition

By: David Jacobs

David Hume's Reply to Descartes: The Ultimate Skeptic is Rebuffed by the Ultimate Empiricist

By: George Garza

Jeremy Bentham: Bentham's Theory Examined the Greatest Good

By: Phillip Burghgraef

Creating a Person with Perfect Body and Mind: Ideal Standards of Education and Personal Growth in Plato’s Republic

By: Arash Farzaneh

The Role of Fate and Destiny in Greek Theater: Free Will and Individuality in Kierkegaard’s Ancient Tragical Motif

By: Arash Farzaneh

Generating Good Luck for Wealth and Health: Increasing The Chances for Good Fortune

By: Mario Carini

Is Aristotle a Humanist? God and Morality in the Nichomachean Ethics

By: Andrew Haines

The Last Man, Friedrich Nietzsche: Character Exposition of The "Last Man" from "Thus Spoke Zarathustra"

By: Phillip Johnston

Hypatia of Alexandria: The Passage from Philosophy to Religion, from Plato to Christ

By: Joshua Mark

Paley's Watch: Why the Created World Argues for a Creator

By: Joshua Mark

Rowe's Fawn: Does Intense Personal Suffering Mean There is No God?

By: Joshua Mark

Pascal's Wager: Is Belief in God the Wisest Bet One Could Ever Make?

By: Joshua Mark

Zeno's Paradoxes: Our Senses Tell Us Motion is Possible; Logic Argues Otherwise

By: Joshua Mark

Aristotle's Definition and Levels of Soul: The Life-Giving Guiding Force of Living Organisms

By: Arash Farzaneh

Plato's Thoughts and Ancient Greek Philosophers: Philosophical and Ideological Influences on the Philosophy of Plato

By: Arash Farzaneh

John Locke, A Letter Concerning Toleration: The Lockean Toleration

By: Gwendolyn Cuizon

Epicurus on Wealth and Happiness: Money is Not the Key to Living a Good Life

By: Richard Mankiewicz

Heraclitus and the Philosophy of Becoming: The Universe in Constant Flux, Natural Laws and Logos

By: Arash Farzaneh

Process Philosophy and the Left-Hand Path: The Ontology of Becoming

By: Frederick Veldman

Ancient Greek Philosophy and Parmenides: Appearance, Everlasting Being and Logos in the Material World

By: Arash Farzaneh

Is Plotinus' Universe a Perfect One? Good and Evil in a Neoplatonic Cosmology of Emanation

By: Andrew Haines

Aquinas and Neoplatonism: The Influence of Plotinus and Pseudo-Dionysius on Thomistic Realism

By: Andrew Haines

Spinoza's House in The Hague: An Enlightenment Shrine to a Modern Secular Saint

By: Jeanne Lombardo

Protagoras -- Man is the Measure of All Things: How Everything is True if Believed to be True

By: Joshua Mark

Heraclitus: Life is Flux: How Refusal to Accept Change Negates Life's Meaning

By: Joshua Mark

Does God Exist: David Hume's Answer To An Unanswerable Question

By: Joshua Mark

Plato's Euthyphro: A Subtle Study on Piety and Pretension

By: Joshua Mark

Nietzsche's Theory of Eternal Recurrence: How What You Live Through Once You Will Live Eternally

By: Joshua Mark

Deontology and Consquentialism: Two Opposing Ethical Theories and Their Main Criticisms

By: Karen Murdarasi

Sartre's Existential Philosophy in a Nutshell: Key Concepts and Aspects of French Atheistic Existentialism

By: Arash Farzaneh

The Problem of Natural Evil: Do Natural Disasters Disprove the Existence of God?

By: Peter Burnham

An Omnipotent Being Cannot Exist: Does Evil Show that No All Powerful Benevolent Being Can Exist?

By: Peter Burnham

Evil is Necessary for Freedom of Will to Exist: The Free Will Response to the Problem of Natural Evil

By: Peter Burnham

Forms of Argument: Arguments are the Bricks from which Theories are Constructed

By: Erin Britton

The Divine Command Theory: Belief that Morality is Inextricably Tied up with Religion

By: Erin Britton

Reason and Experience: What is the Foundation Principle of Human Knowledge?

By: Erin Britton

Objectivism: Ayn Rand's Philosophy

By: Eric Dontigney

Plato's Allegory of the Cave: Leaving the Realm of Becoming to Enter the Realm of Being

By: Erin Britton

Nietzsche's Philosophy of the Übermensch: Christianity and the Conflict between Slave and Master Morality

By: Arash Farzaneh

Frege's Writings on Language and Spoken Word: Philosopher Gottlob Frege Explores Lanugage in "Conceptual Notation"

By: Mia Carter

The Übermensch: Nietzsche, Nazis, and Overcoming the Man

By: Eric Dontigney

Kierkegaard and the Knight of Faith: Understanding Abraham's Decision to Kill Isaac

By: Nathaniel Moya

The Theory of Determinism: A Philosophical Position which Denies the Possibility of Free Will

By: Karen Murdarasi

The Inspirations behind the Hippie Movement: A Comparative Philosophical Analysis of Ideology

By: Arash Farzaneh

Wittgenstein & the Importance of Language Games: Ludwig Wittgenstein: Philosophy & Language

By: Sabrina Louise Webb

Wittgenstein: Should We Abandon Philosophy? An Introduction to the Philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein

By: Sabrina Louise Webb

Aristotle's Golden Mean: Classic Moral Theory from the Nicomachean Ethics

By: Karen Murdarasi

Philosopher Albert Camus: French-Algierian Novelist and Nobel Prize Laureate

By: Christina Gleason

A Critique on Analytic Philosophy: An Educator's Perspective

By: Mark Louie Ramos

Kundalini in Hermetic Philosophy: Serpent Power, Caduceus and Yogic Tradition

By: W. Hommel

Concept of Jacob’s Ladder: Exploring the Philosophical Meaning of The Ladder of Heaven

By: W. Hommel

Serpents in Hermetic Philosophy: Snake Ring of Eternity, Alchemical Texts and Cosmic Time

By: W. Hommel

Androgyny in Alchemy and Mysticism: Sol and Luna in Hermetic Philosophy

By: W. Hommel

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