Philosophy

the history of philosophy, a.c. graling - 3 the presocratic philosophers: pythagoras, xenophanes, heraclitus

the other day i was (yet again) trying to justify my disgusting doom scrolling behavior. ive always resorted to the line of logic that reels and books are but different media for putting the author’s idea out there. but then i came up w the argument that it must be a pain in the ass to publish a book, and if someone is willing to go thru all that then maybe whatever they got is better than tralalero tralala ...

the history of philosophy, a.c. grayling - 2 the presocratic philosophers: thales, anaximander, anaximenes

it sure has been a while since i last did this… i have been quite busy – whenever im not at work, eating, or out and about , i am busy consuming the infinite fountain of wisdom some call “instagram reels”. the world could use some innovation in the year of 2025 – we can start by replacing the nonsensical gibberish of lorem ipsum with relatable idioms like “lirili larila”, “bombardiro crocodillo”, “bombombini gusini”, and “tralalero tralala” ...

the history of philosophy, a.c. grayling - 1 introduction, philosophy before plato

introduction for almost all of its history ‘philosophy’ had the general meaning of ‘rational enquiry’, though from the beginning of modern times in the renaissance until the nineteenth century it more particularly meant what we now call ‘science’ what we now call “philosophy” was marked by labels such as “metaphysics” and “moral philosophy” to distinguish it from what we now call “science”. the word “scientist” was coined in 1833, since which the words “philosophy” and “science” took on their current meanings ...