Best Philosophical Movies – From 1920 to Today
Philosophy and Movies are an inseparable couple, as theater and tragedy. Images are a powerful mean to send messages, maybe a better way than…
Plato’s Philosophy Summary
Plato’s thought: A philosophy of reason Plato was a Greek philosopher known and recognized for having allowed such a considerable philosophical work. The sensible…
There will be blood Analysis
Analysing a movie like There will be blood is like climbing a mountain: you do not know how and where to start ! So,…
Sartre: Hell is other people (Explanation)
No Exit and the question of other people This quote by Jean-Paul Sartre is one of his most famous. It exemplifies his stance as an existentialist philosopher, and…
Baudrillard: The Consumer Society
The consumer society by Baudrillard : A sociological approach to capitalism Consumer society, by Jean Baudrillard, is a major contribution to contemporary sociology and…
Plato and Aristotle Similarities and Differences
Plato vs Aristotle: Compared Philosophies Undeniably, Plato and Aristotle are the two rock stars of Greek Philosophy. Plato created idealism and Aristotle, later recuperated by Thomas Aquinas, became the official doctrine…
Why should not the philosophers rule
Let us then begin by dismissing all the facts, because they do not touch the question.Without going as far as Rousseau in this famous…
Sartre and Bad Faith
Can we lie to ourselves? Bad Faith and Freedom in Sartre’s thought Commonly, one say that the bad faith consists to maintain against all…
Hobbes vs Locke: The State of Nature
The state of nature is a concept used in political philosophy by most Enlightenment philosophers, such as Thomas Hobbes and John Locke. The state of nature is a representation of human existence prior to…
Sartre vs. Camus: The battle of french philosophers
Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus are two major icons of the French intellectual life in the 20th century, particularly in the years 1940-1960. Their…
Philosophy Dictionary : 55 philosophical words you need to know
It is often said that philosophy is too complex. That is true. But it is essentially linked to the technical language that philosophers deploy…
Foucault, Power and Knowledge
Foucault’s definition of power is simple enough: power is a struggle for powers. Note that the term “power” here is not written in the…
Pascal : Man is a thinking reed
This is the most famous quote by Blaise Pascal, a French philosopher. This is an excerpt of Thoughts: Man is a reed, the weakest…
Death is nothing to us – Epicurus
“Death is nothing to us” according to Epicurus The theory that the wise man knows no fear of death is based on the materialism…
Descartes: I think therefore I am – Meaning & Analysis
In daily life, nothing is really sure for the subject. Even obvious truths are doubtful: should I live here or there, should I forgive…
How to Learn Philosophy?
Plato was already wondering if virtue could be learned and answered “no” (in the Meno), in the same way, we do not “learn” philosophy,…
Leviathan (Hobbes): Analysis & Summary
Leviathan, subtitled Treaty of matter, form and power of an ecclesiastical and civil republic, is a work by the English philosopher Thomas Hobbes whose…
Best Philosophical Novels
Literature and philosophy These two areas of thought go hand in hand and can form a continuum: certain authors publishing essays (Balzac, Wilde), as…
Voltaire: Candide (Summary & Analysis)
Candide – Analysis Candide is Voltaire’s Masterpiece, the most read and commented work of the Age of Enlightenment around the world. How Candide is…
Memory: Philosophical Meaning & Definitions
Memory, in philosophy, designates the persistence of the past. The past can persist in the form of simple habits; but memory more properly refers…
Kant & Unsocial Sociability
In Idea for a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Purpose, Kant gives an explanation of his theory of the unsocial sociability of men. In this, Kant affirms that man…
Dreadful, anguish, anxiety: Existentialist concepts defined
An existentialist concept Anxiety is a flagship concept of existentialist philosophy: vertigo of freedom in Kierkegaard refusal of responsibility in Sartre existential anxiety of…
What is a Lapsus? Freud’s Definition
Freudian definition of Lapsus Lapsus is a verbal or written or memory error that appears as an unconscious manifestation. Freud coined this term and…
Leibniz, Monads & the theory of Pre-established Harmony
In his Monadology, the philosopher Leibniz proposes a theory of pre-established harmony (sometimes called the concomitance hypothesis) in order to understand how things are…