Ancient Greece

May 11, 2018

A Radical Philosopher

In today’s Friday Philosophy post we’ll be taking a brief look at the ancient Greek philosopher Diogenes of Sinope. We’ll learn about his radical approach to philosophy – an approach which had a marked influence on the Cynics and Stoics who followed him. Continue reading

Ancient Greece, Philosophy

Christianity, Cynicism, Diogenes, Diogenes of Sinope, faith, Greek philosophy, Jesus Christ, religion, Stoicism, Theology
May 4, 2018

God and Hedonism

In this week’s Friday Philosophy post we’ll be looking at a big idea from the ancient Greek philosopher, Epicurus. You may have come across the Epicurean paradox before, which is a truly fascinating set of propositions concerning the problem of evil. I won’t be focusing on the paradox in this article, as I covered it Continue reading

Ancient Greece, Philosophy

Epicurus, ethics, faith, God, happiness, health, Hedonism, paradox, pleasure, religion, Spirituality, Theology
Apr 27, 2018

The Theory of Atoms

Welcome to this week’s Friday Philosophy post, in which we’ll be taking a brief look at one of the ancient Greek ‘atomist’ philosophers, a man named Democritus. We’re actually jumping back in time a little, as Democritus is a presocratic thinker, but it makes sense to group him in with the atomists, as he is Continue reading

Ancient Greece, Philosophy

atomists, atoms, Democritus, determinism, God, Greek philosophy, materialism, philosophers, science, Theology
Apr 20, 2018

All Things Have Purpose

Welcome to the latest instalment in my Friday Philosophy series. Each week we look at a significant idea from a renowned philosopher from history. In recent posts we covered the presocratics of ancient Greece (like Xenophanes and Heraclitus), then went on to look at the Academics (with Socrates and Plato). This week, we’re covering the Continue reading

Ancient Greece, Philosophy

Aristotle, catholicism, Christianity, church, faith, Islam, metaphysics, religion, science, teleology, Theology
Apr 13, 2018

Plato’s Realm of Forms

Following on from last week’s Friday Philosophy post about Socrates, this week we continue our series looking at the big ideas of influential philosophers with Plato. A student of Socrates and founder of what may have been the first school of philosophy, the Academy, Plato is perhaps the most influential Western philosopher of all time. Continue reading

Ancient Greece, Philosophy

Christianity, faith, God, Greek philosophy, metaphysics, Plato, realm of forms, realm of ideas, religion, Spirituality, Theology
Apr 6, 2018

Can We Know Anything?

Welcome to this week’s Friday Philosophy post! Today we open up a new chapter in our investigations into some of philosophy’s biggest ideas with a look at Socrates, one of the most famous philosophers of all time. Unlike many of the presocratics we’ve been looking at, we know quite a lot about Socrates, mostly from Continue reading

Ancient Greece, Philosophy

Academics, epistemology, ethics, faith, God, knowledge, philosophers, religion, science, Socrates, Theology, truth

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My name is Steven Nicholas Colborne.
I’m a philosopher and author living in the United Kingdom. On this blog, I write about matters of philosophy and religion and share a variety of personal articles.

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Ancient Greece

A Radical Philosopher

God and Hedonism

The Theory of Atoms

All Things Have Purpose

Plato’s Realm of Forms

Can We Know Anything?

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