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Can we ever really trust that we know anything?

By / / Epistemology, History of philosophy, Philosophy of mind / , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Thank you, Curtis L. Delyn, for such a significant question. It is generally agreed that Plato came up with the classical definition of knowledge as “justified true belief”. This has been incredibly influential; many philosophers have accepted some form of this definition by filling in the relevant concepts with various theories and interpretations. Here, truth […]

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Do you think we can hold historical figures to the same ethical and moral standards of today?

By / / Ethics (Moral Philosophy), Philosophy of human nature, Political philosophy, Value Theory / , , , , , ,

Thank you, Heather Bennett, for a very important question. When we ask whether we should hold historical figures to the standard of modern morality, there is perhaps an implicit premise that the societies of the past and our own society have different moral standards. This may assume that moral standards are sensitive to different cultures

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