December 2023

Socrates’ (c. 470-399 BC) method of creating a critical question-answer dialogue to arrive at the truth of the meanings of ethical and other concepts. The “Socratic” method is known exclusively…

The political view that members of society should own or control their means of production—that is, property, factories, businesses, and so on. https://youtube.com/shorts/ByWjJHmDbvA?feature=share

A civilization whose members are tied together by a government, historical bonds, culture, ora set of practices. https://youtube.com/shorts/bUApGRZwYOU?feature=share

A political philosophy concept or theory, originating in the Age of Enlightenment, which concerns the legitimacy of state authority over the individual. The term takes its name from The Social…

An assertion about a specific object, person, place, or time. https://youtube.com/shorts/QxMPr77e7Xo?feature=share

An informal fallacy constituted by arguing that a series of increasingly unpalatable event swill follow from an initial course of action, resulting in a circumstance no one would want.This result…

Fried rich Nietzsche’s (1844-1900) view of a morality of obligation, where one is a slave to imperatives rather than exerting one’s self-driven will to power. https://youtube.com/shorts/1_lkFgHuU-Y?feature=share

1) The ancient Greek practice of investigating experience and being suspicious of those theories that obscure what experience teaches. 2) In modern philosophy, doubt about the veracity and reliability of…

According to Gottlob Frege (1848-1925), terms of natural language are to be understood both with respect to the objects they denote (their reference) and their mode of presentation (their sense);…

Immediate objects of sense, prior to any conceptual organization. According to representational realists, we do not have direct perception of external objects but, rather, of their effects upon our senses.…