    Parmenides and Monism: What Exists Is Uncreated and Imperishable “We can speak and think only of what exists. And what exists is uncreated and imperishable for it is whole and unchanging and complete. It was not or nor shall be different since it is now, all at once, one and continuous.” Parmenides was […]

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Episode 4 – Parmenides and Monism

    Heraclitus, Logos and Flux: You Cannot Step Twice into the Same Stream When Socrates was asked what he thought of the philosophy of Heraclitus, he responded with “the part I understand is excellent, and so too is, I dare say, the part I do not understand; but it needs a Delian diver to […]

Episode 3 – Heraclitus and the Doctrine of Flux

    Diogenes the Cynic: He Has the Most Who Is Most Content with the Least Around the fourth century BC Alexander the Great, who was perhaps the most powerful and influential man of the time decided to approach a philosopher that he greatly admired, Diogenes of Sinope. He approached Diogenes as he was basking […]

Episode 2 – Diogenes and Cynicism

    Epicurus and the Simple Life: What Is Good Is Easy to Get “No one should postpone the study of philosophy when he is young, nor should he weary of it when he becomes mature because the search for mental health is never untimely or out of season. To say that the study of […]

Episode 1 – Epicurus and Epicureanism

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