THEMES ON THIS PAGE: 1. HUMAN NATURE2. ON BEING AND THE ONE3. PHILOSOPHY FOR ITS OWN SAKE GIOVANNI PICO DELLA MIRANDOLA Pico della Mirandola (1463–1494) was an Italian philosopher of the Renaissance and an influential voice of Humanism. He was born to the Lord of Mirandola, which was an autonomous region at that time. He had an exceptional memory, ...
Plato (about 428-348 BC) On Love Plato (about 428-348 BC) was one of the main philosophers of Western thought. He grew up in Athens, and was a student of Socrates. He founded the Greek academy, which continued to operate until the 6th century AD (when the Roman emperor closed it). Among his students was Aristotle. Later in his life, Plato attempted...
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THEMES ON THIS PAGE: 1. THE FALL OF THE SOUL 2. PEAK EXPERIENCE 3. CONTEMPLATION 4. BEAUTY Plotinus (204-270 AD) was a major Neo-Platonist philosopher who lived in late antiquity, mostly in Rome. He was a central figure of Neoplatonism – a school of philosophy based on the thoughts of the philosopher Plato, who had lived centur...
THEMES ON THIS PAGE: 1. HERACLITUS 2. PARMENIDES 3. DEMOCRITUS PRE-SOCRATIC PHILOSOPHERS Western philosophy was born in the 6th century in ancient Greece. For the first time in Western civilization, a group of thinkers started practicing what we call “philosophy”: They developed general theories about reality based on reason (as opposed to fa...
Roma, ottobre 2015 FIRST INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM OF PHILOSOPHICAL PRACTICE, Rome, October 2015 Organized by Sicof, Italy Primo convegno internazionale di pratica filosofica Il Convegno nazionale della Società Italiana di Counseling Filosofico raggiunge la 10° edizione. Per l’occasione si svolge a Roma e, grazie alla collaborazion...
PHILOSOPHY PUZZLE # 15 Solution to the puzzle THUS SPOKE... WHO? Send us your answers by Saturday night, January 23, to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. The five passages below are from famous philosophical texts. Well, not exactly – they are only approximate paraphrases of the original texts (so you cannot identify them with an Internet searc...
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VIDEO: Ran Lahav ¿Qué es lo filosófico en la Práctica Filosófica? [spvideo]http://youtu.be/v9IPKqP9MKs[/spvideo] Ran Lahav ha sido consultor filosófico desde 1992 en Israel y Estados Unidos, trabajando con individuos y grupos. En 1992 empezó dictando el primer curso universitario de práctica filosófica en el mundo. Reconoció la importancia de lleva...