MYSTERIOUS CENTURY OF IDEAS

2,500 years ago, a period of unforeseen incubation of ideas occurred across the globe, which has rarely happened in the history of human civilization. Maybe you are unaware that Buddha, Socrates and Confucius lived at the same age, and that in the period of around 100 years, at the turn of the 6th to the 5th century …

Ockham

‘It is vain to do with more what can be done with less,’ preached English Franciscan William of Ockham (1287-1349), undoubtedly, one of the foremost medieval thinkers. Although not as widely known as his predecessor, Franciscan Rodger Bacon, or the most eminent philosopher of medieval times, Thomas Aquinas, Ockham’s philosophy had an integral contribution to …

TROLLEY PROBLEM

Will you pull the lever at the crucial moment and kill a person, or you won’t do anything and let a trolley kill five people? This famous dilemma, shown in the illustration, in modern philosophy, is known as the trolley problem, which is the name that has recently been accepted in our country as well. …