by J. Jerrald Hayes | Nov 30, 2016 | Critical Thinking, Philosophy, Skepticism
A quick introduction to David Hume… “The 18th-century writer David Hume is one of the world’s great philosophical voices because he hit upon a key fact about human nature: that we are more influenced by our feelings than by reason. This is, at one level,...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Aug 31, 2016 | Philosophy, What I'm Reading
Bettany Hughes talks rather informally on the relationship and connections between the thinkings of Socrates, Confucius, and the Buddha. Socrates, Confucius, and Gautama Buddha are all considered giants of philosophy. They lived in the fifth and sixth centuries BCE,...