
Explore how western society's history from world wars to the cold war shapes the birth of philosophy, highlighting science, technology, capitalism, real socialism, and the central role of truth.
Explore how myth provides a divine sense of the world that defends life from pain and death, and why humans seek remedies beyond myth.
Examine how early thinkers, including Aristotle, identified the principle of all things as material, with water as a key example, and how they defined the total boundary of things.
Explore water as the principle of all things, seeking a non-sensory common identical in multiplicity, beyond any particular water, and tracing the indeterminate appear that unites the whole.
Severino presents absolute nothingness as radical opposition to the totality, not absence, linking it to the fear of death and the emergence of philosophy.
Trace the claim that being is the fundamental reality while nothingness is not, exploring the principle of all things and the identity of differences to reveal meaning.
Explore how Parmenides aligns with eastern wisdom to view the world as Maya, an illusion, arguing that many things are illusion and only being underlies reality.
Explore Parmenides and his quotes to understand the birth of Western philosophy, examining early ideas about being, knowledge, and reality through concise quotes.
Explore how western thought centers on the premise that things come from nothing and return to nothingness, shaping science, technology, and power from ancient Greece to the modern era.
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In this masterclass Emanuele Severino, one of the most important contemporary Italian philosophers, explains us Presocratics and the birth of philosophy.
The Presocratics were the first thinkers to reject mythological explanations of the world and to explore the rational principles of reality. The works of Thales, Heraclitus and Parmenides paved the way for the thoughts of Plato and Aristotle; their theories gave the birth of the Western philosophy.
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