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From a young age, we’re told not to do all sorts of things. “Don’t touch that! Don’t punch him! Wait for everyone else.” are sentences we’ve all heard several times during our upbringing. Lots of these rules your parents taught you, would be practical; to tell a kid not to touch something can be forContinue reading “Moral, immoral, both, neither, what is it?”

In medieval times, philosophers developed political views. They weren’t the first to do this though; ancient Greek thinkers like Aristotle were already busying themselves with ideas on how to improve their current society. Medieval philosophers were however different in a methodical way. They read the Bible and investigated the teachings of the Fathers of theContinue reading “Does necessary mean the exact same to every single person?”

When people hear the word faith, a sceptic attitude is a common reaction for the secular part of our society, to which I too belong. Something I’ve recently read has however changed my perspective on this quick judgement. The medieval philosopher Thomas Aquinas has written about this conflict between faith and scientifical reasoning in hisContinue reading “We always ‘believe’ whether you admit it or not”

You go to college to acquire knowledge. You want to learn about things you don’t already know and enhance your mental capabilities. You wonder how things work, in which teachers will enlighten you. You expect all your questions to have an answer you can learn about. Is this however the only reason we train ourContinue reading “Keep thinking and wondering”

In our nowadays secularized community, religion is seen as sort of a hobby you do next to your necessary activities. The beliefs that are most important to our society are those of science, ethics, politics etc. Whether you believe in religion can have a place next to that and is completely and subjectively up toContinue reading “Revelation and reason or reason and revelation?”

The human race is a stubborn species. People often say the Dutch are even more direct than the average humans, but overall, we all want to show how smart we are and that we are definitely right. A good extensive discussion during a dinner among friends is part of the norm. Animals, thus also people,Continue reading “Objectively subjective?”

When your kid turns seven years old and teachers come to tell you his reading skills are below average, the stroke for the parents of the 21st century starts to enter their minds. They involve every possible person or institution to make sure their child won’t fall behind. After that, they have to start selectingContinue reading “Morality on its own or only in relation to others?”

Philosophers have always been a big fan of solving problems by thinking of even weirder ones. They try to come up with the craziest and most extreme thought experiments to try and simplify finding the answer to their questions. We see this in Gettier’s “Ten Coins Case” or Descartes wax experiment. They’re both situations inContinue reading “How necessary is our logic?”

In the middle ages, medieval philosophers started to question Aristotle’s theory on predication. The substance plus the accident concludes the predication. According to Aristotle, the substance has an existence independent from the accident. The substance can be seen as a phenomenon with which we associate certain accidents, but these accidents can obviously vary and stillContinue reading “The possibility of an empty thought”

When you hear the term ‘evil’, most people nowadays think about serial killers, women trafficking, torture and other utter malicious things. Augustine in the middle ages had other thoughts on the subject. Augustine was a Christian and was inspired by the Neoplatonists and their dualism. This dualism prescribes that there would be two worlds; anContinue reading “Evil, that scary?”