Human Rights

Plato and the Doctrine of Natural Law (Hans Kelsen)

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I. IDEALISTIC AND REALISTIC DOCTRINE OF LAwAs a result of the shocks which the existing social orders haveexperienced through two World Wars and the Russian Revolution,an intellectual movement is becoming increasingly evident in theWestern World-one which, in sharp reaction to a scientific-positivisticand relativistic philosophy, aims at a return to metaphysics andtheology, and-closely connected with this-to …

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Presocratic Philosophy (Patricia Curd)

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The Presocratics were 6th and 5th century BCE Greek thinkers who introduced a new way of inquiring into the world and the place of human beings in it. They were recognized in antiquity as the first philosophers and scientists of the Western tradition. This article is a general introduction to the most important Presocratic philosophers and the …

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Pre-Socratic Philosophers (Joshua J. Mark)

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The Pre-Socratic Philosophers are defined as the Greek thinkers who developed independent and original schools of thought from the time of Thales of Miletus (l. c. 585 BCE) to that of Socrates of Athens (470/469-399 BCE). They are known as Pre-Socratics because they pre-date Socrates. Thales of Miletus initiated the intellectual movement that produced the works now known as ancient Greek philosophy by inquiring into the First Cause …

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The Pre-Socratics: the Origin of Greek Philosophy ( )

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An introduction to the pre-Socratics The history of Western civilization begins in ancient Greece with the first attempt of man to understand the world beyond the guise of religion and myth. While Socrates, Plato, or Aristotle may be the first names that come to mind when thinking about ancient Greek philosophers, this revolutionary era of …

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Black Voters May Be Abandoning the Democrats—But They’ll Never Become Republicans | Opinion (Jeff Charles)

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The Democratic Party has been gradually losing support among racial minority voters over recent years, a trend that has garnered no small level of attention in the political sphere. Black and Hispanic Americans, in particular, have grown even more disenchanted with the party over the past six decades, according to Gallup. Many have been pointing to a …

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