One of the most influential philosophers of the Western  world in the scholastic tradition is Saint Thomas Aquinas. Saint Thomas Aquinas is a teacher in the Aristotelian tradition and expanded on theology and philosophy at the same time. To start, Thomas Aquinas was born in the year 1224 or 1224 and was the son of…

Augustine of Hippo is known as a philosopher who was very important to the Christian tradition and well known in the field of philosophy. To give the background to Augustine, he was born in Algeria in the year three hundred and fifty four. He was born to a Roman family and he studied in Carthage….

Seneca (also known as Seneca the younger) was a statesmen, poet, and philosopher in Rome during the early empire period. Seneca is known for many things in history such as various emperors that he served and how his writings impacted their reign. In addition, many older Greek writings are known to us thanks to Seneca…

Often called The Philosopher (with a capital T in The), Aristotle was born in 384 BC to a physician named Nicomachus and his mother. His father did whenever he was young and his career in philosophy started at seventeen when his uncle sent him to Plato’s academy. He was at the academy for the last…

Plato comes next in line of the greats, and he was a student of Socrates. Plato’s original name was actually Aristocles, but he was given the nickname Plato. Plato itself means “broad shouldered” which is most likely because he possessed this physical characteristic. Plato was born in Greece around 430 BC and he died in…

Starting in ancient Greece a new philosopher would change history forever. Socrates (born around four hundred and seventy BC) is made known to us through the writing of one of his students. This student is named Plato, another prominent figure in Western philosophy. To begin, Socrates was older than thirty whenever he started his career…

Starting last year during a pro vaccine mandate rally at Penn State University Park there arose an issue over a confrontation. What happened for this confrontation to arise was that a student was counter protesting inside of the crowd of near the hub. The confrontation itself was the teacher trying to rip the student’s sign…

In Florida there was a new bill passed by the Florida senate. The bill proposed would  prevent grade school teachers from discussing sexual orientation and gender identity. This bill would only apply to grades kindergarten to grade three. This bill was advocated for by Republicans in Florida. The current bill is facing trouble from a…

A lot of countries around the world have recently been implementing mandatory vaccines in relation to Covid. Canada has recently mandated that all truckers from Canada and coming in from the USA needs to be vaccinated. In response to this in Canada starting on Sunday of last week, there has been a “freedom convoy” protesting…

Hello, my passion blog posts this semester will be about the great philosophers of the past. Not all of them will be from ancient Greece, but for my first post I am going to provide some background to what philosophy exactly is. To start, the definition of what philosophy is according to the Oxford dictionary…