Filosofos

PLATO
Plato is one of the world's best known and most widely read and studied philosophers. He was the student of Socrates and the teacher of Aristotle, and he wrote in the middle of the fourthcentury B.C.E. in ancient Greece. Though influenced primarily by Socrates, to the extent that Socrates is usually the main character in many of Plato’s writings, he was also influenced by Heraclitus,Parmenides, and the Pythagoreans.
Plato’s middle to later works, including his most famous work, the Republic, are generally regarded as providing Plato’s own philosophy, where the main character ineffect speaks for Plato himself. These works blend ethics, political philosophy, moral psychology, epistemology, and metaphysics into an interconnected and systematic philosophy.
He proposes a skepticalpoint of view, which establishes that ethics is something that the strong impose on the weak

THOMAS HOBBES
The English philosopher Thomas Hobbes is best known for his political thought. Hisvision of the world is strikingly original and still relevant to contemporary politics. His main concern is the problem of social and political order: how human beings can live together in peace and avoidthe danger and fear of civil conflict. He poses stark alternatives: we should give our obedience to an unaccountable sovereign (a person or group empowered to decide every social and political issue).Otherwise what awaits us is a ‘state of nature’ that closely resembles civil war – a situation of universal insecurity, where all have reason to fear violent death and where rewarding humancooperation is all but impossible. One controversy has dominated interpretations of Hobbes. Does he see human beings as purely self-interested?
Hobbes's moral thought is difficult to disentangle from hispolitics. On his view, what we ought to do depends greatly on the situation in which we find ourselves. Where political authority is lacking our fundamental right seems to be to save our skins, by...