Ancient Greece

Mar 30, 2018

Infinite Wisdom

Welcome to this week’s Friday Philosophy post! As promised, today we’ll be looking at another thinker from the Eleatic School of ancient Greek philosophy, a man named Zeno. This post naturally follows on from last Friday when we looked at the thought of Parmenides, as Zeno was a student of his. Who Was He? Zeno of Continue reading

Ancient Greece, Philosophy

dialectic, faith, God, Good Friday, Greek philosophy, infinity, religion, science, The Eleatic school, Theology, Zeno, Zeno of Elea
Mar 23, 2018

Do Ideas Exist in Reality?

In the last few Friday Philosophy posts we’ve been looking at the presocratics (that is, ancient Greek philosophers who lived and taught prior to Socrates). This week we’re moving on to a new category: the Eleatics. These philosophers are also presocratic, but are often grouped together separately as they all lived in the ancient town Continue reading

Ancient Greece, Philosophy, Reality

Eleatic school, faith, Greek philosophy, logic, metaphysics, Parmenides, presocratics, reason, religion, Theology
Mar 16, 2018

Rivers of Change

Welcome to this week’s Friday Philosophy post. Over the last few weeks we’ve been looking at some of the most famous presocratic philosophers (that is, ancient Greek philosophers who lived prior to Socrates), and we will finish this mini-series of presocratic thinkers with Heraclitus, who lived between approximately 600-540 BC. Who Was He? Heraclitus was a Continue reading

Ancient Greece, Philosophy

change, faith, God, Heraclitus, mathematics, Panentheism, presocratics, reality, science, Spirituality, Theology
Mar 9, 2018

A God Unlike His Creatures

In today’s Friday Philosophy post we’re looking at another presocratic thinker. Each week we look at one meaningful idea by a philosopher from history, and offer some reflections on that idea. This week the spotlight is on Xenophanes of Colophon and his thoughts about the divine. Who Was He? As with many of the presocratic thinkers, Continue reading

Ancient Greece, God, Philosophy

Christianity, faith, Greek philosophy, philosophers, presocratics, religion, Spirituality, Theology, Xenophanes
Mar 2, 2018

Reality as Numbers

In this week’s Friday Philosophy post we’re going to stay with the ancient Greeks and look at an idea by a man who we all know from mathematics lessons. Pythagoras of Samos lived around the mid-sixth century BC (we don’t know the exact dates) and like Thales who we looked at last week was a presocratic Continue reading

Ancient Greece, Philosophy, Reality

Christianity, faith, God, mathematics, Nostradamus, numerology, presocratics, Pythagoras, religion, Theology
Feb 23, 2018

Is Everything Made of Water?

Excuse the bizarre title and bear with me; it’ll make sense in a minute. This is my first Friday Philosophy post, and each week I’m going to be looking at a key idea from a renowned philosopher. We’ll start back in 620BC, which was the approximate birth date of Thales of Miletus, an ancient Greek Continue reading

Ancient Greece, God, Philosophy, Reality

Christianity, faith, Greek philosophy, nature, religion, science, Thales, Thales of Miletus, Theology, water

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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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