Dinesh's photos with the keyword: Philosophy

In this Renaissance painting Boethius (C.AD 480-525) listens to the words of the Lady Philosophy. The Consolation of Philosophy is his most famous book, and consolation was that he needed as he awaited execution. But philosophy has had many purposes besides this one. In 523 Boethius fell from power. After a period of imprisonment in Pavia for what was deemed a treasonable offence, he was executed in 524. www.gutenberg.org/files/14328/14328-h/14328-h.htm plato.stanford.edu/entries/boethius

Progress through conflict: the Storming of the Bastille. Hegel was 19 when the French Revolution occurred -- it made an impression Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, (born August 27, 1770, Stuttgart, Württemberg [Germany]—died November 14, 1831, Berlin), German philosopher who developed a dialectical scheme that emphasized the progress of history and of ideas from thesis to antithesis and thence to a synthesis.

Hume was smarter than he looked: 'His face is by no means an index of his ingenuity of his mind, especially of his delicacy and vivacity wrote one visitor.