Philosophy of Being

Aristotle’s 5 Predicables Explained Aristotle predicables are not that difficult to understand. They are the five ways that we can speak about something. For...

6September 13, 2011
Aristotle’s 5 Predicables Explained

Aristotle predicables are not that difficult to understand. They are the five ways that we can speak about something. For...
1February 18, 2010
Augustine on the Latin term *essentia*

“Essentia is a new word, indeed, which was not used in the Latin speech of old, but which has come...
4February 18, 2010
Great Philosophy Quotes

“The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.” Alfred...
3October 06, 2009
Scholarship on Plato’s Unwritten Dogmas or Doctrines

Cornelia J. de Vogel, H.J. Kramer, and others have focused their attentions on the so-called unwritten doctrines of Plato. This...
6October 03, 2009
Outline of Aristotle’s Metaphysics

Aristotle’s Metaphysics consists of fourteen (14) books of various lengths, often without any obvious order or relation to prior books....
1October 01, 2009
Aristotle’s Vocabulary

Aristotle’s Book Delta of his Metaphysics is commonly called Aristotle’s dictionary or lexicon. Below is a helpful list of Greek...
2September 15, 2009
Did Plato Have an Unwritten Doctrine?

Aristotle tells us that Plato had an unwritten doctrine or unwritten dogmas (agrapha dogmata). Commenting on Plato’s Timaeus, Aristotle recorded: “It...
15September 07, 2009
Understanding the Third Man Argument

Plato’s Parmenides contains an argument against the so-called Platonic theory of forms known as the “Third Man Argument”. Here’s how it...
6September 07, 2009
Guide to the Pre-Socratics

Melesian School – Starting the Conversation 1. Thales (624-546 B.C.) – The “Father of Greek philosophy”. All things are water 2. Anaximander...