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Lesson 1: Plato and Aristotle: The Dreamer and The Scientist

Jeff Carreira April 8, 2014 A Crash Course in Western Philosophy 4 Comments

The 20th Century philosopher Alfred North Whitehead has described all of Western philosophy as a footnote to Plato. By this he implies that all of philosophy has either been an extension of, or a refutation of what Plato originally thought.

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Is Time Real?

Jeff Carreira January 10, 2013 Philosophy 4 Comments

The experience of the passage of time is one of the most foundational experiences of being human. We remember the past, we experience the immediacy of the present, and we imagine the possibilities of the …

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Plato, Aristotle and William James

Jeff Carreira February 15, 2010 Philosophy 10 Comments

Before continuing to examine the ideas of William James lets look at the origins of metaphysical dualisms in Western thought by comparing the two big thinkers of ancient Greece, Plato and Aristotle. Plato was in …

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