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...

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 PHILOSOPHY PUZZLE # 15 Solution to the puzzle  THUS SPOKE... WHO? Send us your answers by Saturday night, January 23, to AgoraPhilosophy@gmail.com 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...