Philosophical Dictionary

Did philosophy exist before Socrates? You betcha! In this article we will discuss some of the philosophers who existed before that particular bearded guy, the Presocratics.

Why is making close friends as an adult so hard? Aristotle said real friendship requires living together and sharing your days, something almost nobody does anymore. Schopenhauer's porcupine parable might explain the rest. What happens when neither solution is available to you?

The second part of the "Philosophy Carol" series in which you are visited by the Spirit of Philosophy Past, glimpsing the history of philosophy while receiving bonks on the head from an ancient tome.

No circle you have ever drawn is a perfect circle, and yet you know exactly what a perfect circle is. Plato thought that small puzzle proves there is a second, more real world: the realm of Forms. Here is the theory of Forms in plain English, with Plato’s own examples, the Form of the Good, the slave boy who “remembers” geometry, the objections Plato raised against himself, Aristotle’s and Diogenes’ mockery, and why mathematicians and programmers still think like Platonists.