Philosophy Now Forum

In Plato's Dialogues, Socrates occasionally speaks of a single creator god. It was my understanding that Greece was polytheistic (Zeus, etc). Is this an idea that had spread from other cultures? (Such as when he speaks of reincarnation) Or had Greek culture as a whole gotten away from what we typica...

Hm, never thought of it like that.

In reading about the Big Bang, I've heard that the initial singularity that existed prior to the event was an object with zero volume. Zero Volume! I'm having the hardest time wrapping my brain around an object that actually exists in the physical universe, yet has zero volume! Can someone please he...

I'm a 24 year old from CA. I'm in a community college now and I've taken a few intro courses to Philosophy and I'm looking for ways to feed this new passion of mine. I look forward to learning from you all. I know a few things about philosophy, but it's all basic surface stuff and I have a lot to le...