Understanding Universe

             Are Plato and Aristotle worth reading? Well, time has proved that their ideas were not only false but bizarre and foolish! They might be great scholars for philosophy students but not for us scientists, right? Again, you are being too greedy for results. Of course, Results and Answers are our ultimate goals but there is a path required to reach this destination. This path has no shortcuts, and the ones who look for shortcuts learn reality the hard way. If these pre-Socrates and post-Socrates had not started taking random guesses at nature there would be no way we could have reached good answers. And we only know that all science today is just good answers because we are yet to find the exact ones. Unless we formulate  “Theory of Everything” , we can’t be sure that the answers we have right now, are just good guesses or exact solutions. If you don’t know “Theory of Everything” , well it’s a hypothetical equation that is supposed to a...

Have you decided on being a Platonist or an Aristotelian? Well, I personally think you need both idealism and realism in Science. And we are not analyzing who was right and who wasn't! We are just interested in the way they acquired such a wide scope of ideas. Isn't it fascinating that Plato's star student, who was taught idealism for 20 years, turned out to be the greatest rival of his ideology, perhaps the exact opposite of his philosophy? So, how did he manage to come up with such a revolutionary philosophy?  The answer lies in analyzing the very first centers of knowledge in Europe: Plato's Academy and Aristotle's Lyceum Parmenides I have effectively asserted that all we know about Socrates is on account of his students, mainly Plato established an actual school called 'the Academy' to prepare Athenians in 'how to think like Socrates.'  Furthermore, he additionally recorded dialogues among Socrates and different scholars including Parmenides. D...

  Are you an idealist or a materialist? Some of you might ask: How can we answer the question without knowing what idealist and materialist are? If you are asking questions like this, then congratulations, you are already following the Socratic Method . So, Idealism is actually a metaphysical view of the universe in which we link reality with our ideas and spirituality rather than the physical world. If you wanna test, ask yourself this question:  Do you observe the world and draw conclusions from what you see?   Materialism or Realism on the other hand means that matter is the fundamental substance of nature and all our consciousness and experiences are the result of the interaction between matters. Again for a quick check, ask yourself: Do you trust math or your senses?  Before you decide about being an idealist or materialist, let’s take a trip to Athens of 399 BCE to give you a better understanding of this concept and its origin. Remember Socrates? (If not th...

  Quite a while in the past, a few realists endeavored to detach legends from what they really knew about nature. Around then, they regarded everything they had gotten the hang of as Natural Philosophy . They started using their own brain rather than the bard's tale to realize nature.  Eventually, they prevailed in delivering breathtaking theories. To quote a few, Thales theorized that everything on the planet is made of water. Pythagoras was a mathematical mystic who formalized the popular Pythagoras Theorem . What's more, Democritus , who we as a whole know and love as the one who gave the idea of the atom . This load of incredible scholars lived even before Socrates, and they were called Pre-Socratic . There were lots and lots of Pre-Socratic  pragmatists or natural philosophers and each individual is magnificent and wholesome. You can't possibly sum up all of them within one teeny-weeny article. The goal here is not to discuss their lives and achievements but thei...

  Have you heard of Socrates?  Y ou might have heard other variations of his name like Suqrat (سقراط). You would have used his quotes in your assignments back in school.  He is perhaps one of the most compelling masterminds ever. But Socrates never recorded anything, then how do we find tons and tons of his quotes on the internet? Actually, all we know about him is what the others have told us. Most broadly, Socrates is a figure in Plato's dialogues, where, in addition to other things, he is portrayed as short, fat, and ugly; wears grimy robes; doesn't have a job to help his better half and children; doesn't partake in Athens' political life and couldn't care less with regards to his economic wellbeing. But at the same time, it has been described that he could remain up the entire night without feeling tired, the following day, could drink anybody under the table without becoming drunk and is apparently impenetrable to warmth and cold. An all-out knockout, without ...