Questions tagged [philosophy]
the study of questions about human existence, knowledge, and reason.
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Did Socrates have a homosexual relationship with an Athenian statesman?
There are many conflicting accounts as to whether the Athenian statesman Alcibiades was a lover of Socrates. The Wikipedia page on Alcibiades' depiction in culture states:
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Did Plato say “we can change reality by changing our mind”?
The complete quote is:
Reality is created by the mind. We can change our reality by changing our mind.
I found this quote on Goodreads and on this blog and on Pinterest. However, none of these cites ...
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Did Percy Bysshe Shelley take credit for work done by Mary Shelley?
This is going to be a rather unorthodox question by me, as I can't fully legitimize the claim about to be questioned, but today, in conversing with a colleague of mine, the Shelleys popped up in ...
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Are moral philosophers more moral than other philosophers?
Part of the plot of the simultaneously funny and profound television show The Good Place revolves around a professor of moral philosophy trying to teach some not very moral people how to be good. And ...
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Do certain religious traditions believe that Eve had sex with the Serpent?
On p.169 of my edition of de Beauvoir's The Second Sex, she includes a footnote remarking
The moon is a source of fertility; it is seen as the "master of women"; it is often believed that the moon, ...
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Did John Stuart Mill write a history of Roman law at age 10?
Professor Michael Sandel claims that philosopher John Stuart Mill
was a child prodigy ... He knew Greek at the age of three, Latin at eight. And age 10, he wrote a history of Roman law.
I tried ...
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