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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
Apr 3, 2018

The Foolishness of the Gospel

Jesus famously taught that if we seek, we shall find. Those who wish to find favour with God and live a godly life will at some point encounter the teachings of the Bible and be forced to consider the Christian worldview, and whether to embrace or reject the radical gospel of salvation we find in… Continue reading

Christianity, Scripture, Theology

1 Corinthians, Bible, faith, foolishness, God, Jesus, Jesus Christ, Philosophy, religion, Spirituality, wisdom
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 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 15, 2018

The Free Will Problem

In last week’s Thursday Theology post (here) we looked at different theories of determinism. We saw that determinism is the idea that the past determines the future in a literal ’cause and effect’ way, so that theoretically, given the entirety of history and all the laws of physics, there is only one possible future in… Continue reading

Free Will, Philosophy, Theology

Christianity, compatibilism, determinism, faith, God, Islam, Judaism, libertarianism, Panentheism, religion, science

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Steven Colborne is an author, musician and counsellor from the United Kingdom. On this blog he writes about philosophy, religion and spirituality and shares a variety of personal articles.

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