The life Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm (Röcken 1844 – Weimar 1900), German classical philosopher, poet and philologist, one of the most important thinkers of the 19th century.…
The historical cultural context Scientific development and the Industrial Revolution produce profound transformations not only in economic and social structures, but also in culture and philosophy,…
Descartes (René Descartes), the philosopher of “I think therefore I am” (“Cogito ergo sum”) was born on March 31, 1596 in La Haye, in Touraine. In…
Descartes (La Haye en Touraine, March 31, 1596 – Stockholm, February 11, 1650), or René Descartes, is remembered as one of the founders of modern philosophical…
God bless you, my son. I will give you the most precious gem I possess: I will reveal to you, for the love of God and…
Bacon describes in the New Atlantis a happy society, based on reason and science. Knowledge is aimed at social utility and in a systematic way, based…
Happiness and perfection are two pervasive themes of Western philosophy and, from a certain point of view, they are the very two objectives of philosophy. It…
The trial of Galileo Galilei, supporter of the Copernican-heliocentric theory on the motion of celestial bodies in opposition to the geocentric theory, supported by the Catholic…
We started reading Plato’s Symposium in class. After Phaedrus, Pausanias and Erissimaco, Aristophanes speaks: and his speech is one of Plato’s best known things.Aristophanes tells a…
Introduction Metamorphosis is a long story by Franz Kafka (1883-1924), written in 1912 but published in 1915. It is one of the best known and most…