Philosophy

A rich history of philosophy, skepticism, critical theorists, psychology, religion, and the general study of epistemology, have revealed the following: we know much less ...

Teachable moments provide opportunities to produce changes in a client’s behavior that would positively impact the health and well being of a client. The ...

Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) and John Locke (1632-1704) were both great thinkers of their time and noted for their influences on political thinking. Each philosopher ...

Although reality and simplicity are certainly not synonyms, varying circumstances in the human experience of life can combine in significantly correlated ways. This conversation ...

In the third meditation of Rene Descartes’ Meditations on First Philosophy, he comes to the conclusion that there does exist a God. His arrival ...

Friedrich Nietzsche stands as one of the most famous and influential philosophers of all time and is certainly one of the most famous of ...

Somewhere in the balance of rhetoric and politics, the greatest philosophers find their personal stance. Socrates believed in the absolute authority of the state and ...

In looking at a painting by Picasso, perhaps his “Old Guitarist” painted in 1903, a conversation about art might emerge and could move in ...

In Voltaire’s Candide and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, there are two protagonists who seek knowledge and learn the limitation of that knowledge. Although Candide and ...

Born: 1712 Geneva. The mother dies soon after. Father educates him to age ten but then flees Geneva to avoid arrest. Rousseau is put in ...