Definitions of Love
Love is a concept still to be explored. Therefore there is no perfect definition. Here is what we can say about love. Definitions of Love: General: The movement of the …
Category: Philosophy
Health against diseases and plagues
Reflection on health and medicine Seneca, in the first century B.C., recalled the importance of health in his Letters to Lucilius, as a value superior to any wealth or glory. …
4 Quotes from Plato on justice (Book I of the Republic)
The following quotations are taken from Victor Cousin’s translation of The Republic – (Plato), volumes nine and ten, Book I Socrates talks about a discussion held the day before at Polemarchus ’ …
Culture and personality – Edward Sapir
Edward Sapir (1884-1939) was both an anthropologist and a linguist. In his work on culture and language, he deepened and analyzed the concept of culture. His work Anthropology led him …
Inequality in school results because of the family – Raymond Boudon
Raymond Boudon (1934–2013) is a great representative of French sociology of the past and current century. His studies led him to focus on the inequalities between different individuals according to …
Justice hides the wrath
In his tragedy Wenceslas in 1647, Jean de Rotrou says: Justice is often the mask of wrath. This quotation expresses how much the pretended justice can in truth dissimulate another …