Athens Academics
He is sentenced to death in the Apology.
Who is Socrates?
Gadamer's Truth and Method address this area of philosophy.
Jane Austen
"Great."
According to Parmenides, humans lead themselves astray by contemplating what-is-not, and should instead only contemplate this.
What is what-is?
This pioneer of German Idealism is famous for his conception of dialectic.
Who is Hegel?
Jorge Luis Borges
"A favorite. How freely one breathes in his marvelous labyrinths! Lucidity of thought, purity of poetry. A man of infinite talent."
The French word for high school, lycée, comes from lyceum, an academy founded by this philosopher.
Who is Aristotle?
This French sociologist suggests that symbolic capital is passed down in families, maintaining power relations.
Who is Bourdieu?
"Dislike him. Second-rate, ephemeral, puffed-up. A nonentity, means absolutely nothing to me. Awful."
Plato's book containing various accounts of eros (love), whose title literally means "drinking party."
What is the Symposium?
According to him, justice and morality are used by the weak to suppress the strong.
Who is Nietzsche?
Fyodor Dostoevsky
"Dislike him. A cheap sensationalist, clumsy and vulgar. A prophet, a claptrap journalist and a slapdash comedian."
Aristotle was the first to systematize deductive logic. A syllogism, or sound argument, differs from a valid argument in that is has these.
What are true premises?
Heidegger says authenticity entails being-towards-this.
What is death?
"A divine work of art. Greatest masterpiece of 20th century prose."
What is Ulysses?