Tag: Aristotle
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Epistemology – Part 2: Truth
As I stated earlier in Part 1, epistemology is the study of knowledge, or how we know what we know. Since the time of Plato and Aristotle, JTB (justified true belief) has been the standard understanding of knowledge. And even though JTB is not a sufficient condition for knowledge, JTB is a necessary condition for…
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Philosophy of Art and Aesthetics
In his book Beauty: A Very Short Introduction, Roger Scruton notes at the beginning of the eighteenth century, the philosophy of art became aware of itself and named itself ‘aesthetics’ after the Greek term aisthesis for sensation. This was in keeping with a much older view that beauty is the object of a sensory delight…
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Philosophers and Theologians
From the Greek philosopher Plato, we have the Platonist tradition. From the Greek philosopher Aristotle, we have the Aristotelian tradition. The Christian philosopher-theologian Augustine drew from the works of Plato and Neoplatonism when writing his own works like Confessions and City of God. On the other hand, the Christian philosopher-theologian Thomas Aquinas drew from the…