Essays on Philosophers

Rene Descartes believed that human intelligence was innate and that human knowledge was based on the knowledge acquired by insight and induction. Descartes' Discourse on Method written in 1697 provides an important theory of human understanding and life. In the letter, Descartes accepts the life (Cogito Ergo sum) translated as...

Marcus and Stoicism Marcus is one of the most renowned philosophers of which one of his core works, registered as Meditations, is very interesting. In the passage of his Med 11.33-38 Marcus' attraction to stoicism is illustrated (Hadot 131). This journey is of importance in light of this 171-175 AD period...

One of the best thinkers of all time: Francis Galton and Friedrich Nietzsche They have been reading for decades of inspiring readers. In his excerpt, Human Faculty and Creation Inquiries, Francis Galton emphasizes human intelligence and strength. Galton writes mostly about human development over time. The writing starts with an overall...

David Hume is a philosopher whose reputation and importance in philosophy owes to his very brave critical approach to a number of philosophical issues. Hume challenged existing notions of causality and suggested that in the real world itself the human interpretation of relationship of cause and effect is affected by...

Reality consists of each matter and ideas. Both are components of reality. Reality, according to philosophical concepts, is the true state of the things as they exist in actuality. Reality can be understood as the concept of being. A aspect is said to be real or true if it is or...

In several speeches relating to political science, the state has been the focal point. This can be traced from Plato's scholarly works to Karl Marx, who also delved into a study of the manner in which a state's structure and responsibilities have increasingly changed over time. There was no meeting of...