The traditional family is gradually being replaced
The classic household composition of the 20th century tends to be replaced by a new composition that reflects the changes in family situations as the transition to the 21st century …
Category: Philosophy
Lucretius’ epicureanism still relevant
Epicureanism according to Lucretius. Lucretius first evokes the pleasure that one feels to avoid torments, then the pleasure, the happiness that knowledge brings. He pities those men who are only …
Plato – Summary of the Banquet
I. We understand at first that it is Apollodorus who is going to tell the testimony of Aristodemus. Apollodorus: Well then, here they are, more or less; but it is …
Is justice telling the truth?
Plato in The Republic reports a discussion between Socrates and Cephalus. Is justice to always tell the truth? Is justice to give back to everyone what one has received? Plato …
Sophocles : praise of love
Sophocles is the model of the author of tragedies according to Aristotle. In Antigone, written in 442 BC, Sophocles tells with subtlety the psychological struggle of the heroine of the same …
Plato – Cultivating the soul and the body
Which arts should be cultivated? How do we cultivate the body? How do we cultivate the soul? Plato makes Socrates say in the Gorgias that there are two substances: the …