by Lucille Turner | Apr 18, 2020 | History, Philosophy
History is full of pandemics. As populations have expanded, epidemics have increased. Even in ancient times great epidemics scoured the globe, bringing monumental changes in their wake. Some of these epidemics became pandemics, although in ancient times the world was...
by Lucille Turner | Sep 29, 2017 | Philosophy
The motivation for almost all warfare throughout history has mainly been either economic gain or territorial gain. There have been wars fought over religion, but even these have been fuelled by gain of some kind. The Second World War felt exceptional because there was...
by Lucille Turner | Aug 12, 2017 | Philosophy
William of Ockham, an English philosopher, is credited with the principle of Occam’s razor, also used by scientists such as Einstein. The Occam’s razor principle says that the simplest solution is normally the right one, and it rests upon the same rational,...
by Lucille Turner | Aug 6, 2017 | Philosophy
READ PARTS I to V HERE As a young man of 17 or 18 years, Aristotle was sent to Plato’s Academy to learn from the great master himself, who by now had become almost a legend in his own right with his Dialogues based on the Socratic method of posing a rhetorical...
by Lucille Turner | Jul 28, 2017 | Philosophy
READ PARTS I to IV HERE SLXLM While Socrates was defending his opinions in the great halls of Athens, the city-state was falling apart. Wars were being fought, and people were becoming poor. Perhaps this was the reason for the ultimate condemnation of...
by Lucille Turner | Jul 21, 2017 | Philosophy
READ PARTS I, II AND III HERE SLXLM Around the same time that Pythagoras was reflecting on the impossibility of irrational numbers and the apparently numerical nature of eternity, across the Aegean Sea in the city of Athens other ideas were taking shape....
