David Hume and the Limiting of Thinking

When one ponders the field of philosophy and the point of pursuing it, the individual finds himself posing various questions. Often these can take shape as quite meaningful and deep queries into fundamental aspects of reality. I am a firm believer in the notion that if a saying or a proposed mode of operation has…

Causality and Forms: Plato vs Aquinas

One of the great bodies of work to which the philosopher Plato dedicated his energies was the notion of forms. The ancient Greek took a cue from his philosophical predecessor Heraclitus. Plato adopted the Heraclitianistic notion that there was a quasi-incoherence in the natural world, but Plato upheld the idea only in part. For Heraclitus…

The Foundation of Originality and Human Thought

+JMJ+ An essay by John Tuttle:   Cogito, ergo sum: “I think, therefore I am” is an observation by the influential French philosopher Rene Descartes which has since become a trite idiom of the English language. Nevertheless, it is a logical and foundational element to begin with, this concept that our very existence is tied…