philosophy

Walter Benjamin was a German cultural critic and philosopher. A Marxist and a Jew, he was, naturally, forced to flee Germany after the Nazi takeover, and spent the rest of his life in France. Following the outbreak of the Second World War, and with the Fall of France imminent, Benjamin fled...

Hello all, So, the Italian Renaissance was (more or less) a renewed interest in Italy's Classical Roman heritage, mostly in aesthetic and scholarly fields. This interest in pre-Christian culture and philosophy led to new developments which went hand-in-hand with the preeminence of the Catholic...

Suppose that you have your run of the mill Achaemenid success story in Greece. Thermopylae fails to hold the Achaemenids for even a few hours, the allied Greek navy gets smashed at Salamis and Themistocles killed, and with both land and naval dominance, the Peloponnese, as well as some Aegean...

In 422 BC, the city of Stageira was besieged by the Athenian demagogue Cleon, as a result of it leaving the Delian League, during the Peloponnesian War. Stagira happened to be the home of Aristotle himself, the famous polymath, philosopher, and scholar who has been massively influential...

How plausible would it be for societies around the world to reach a present day technology level without the following words, or words with near-identical meanings, existing in any language? And how far back would the POD have to be? Religion Science Technology Education Athletics Economics...

As something of a sign that I spend too much time on this site, this AHC idea popped into my head two days ago and has been bugging me ever sense. Basically, there are six classical schools of Chinese philosophy (Confucianism, Legalism, Taoism, Mohism, the School of Yin-Yang, and the School of...

How do you think would it have been possible to butterfly away the various religious and philosophical movements of Eurasia that happened in the 1st millennium BCE and led to the development of philosophy, modern religions, and the ancestors of modern states, in fact how could it be possible to...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Green_(merchant) Could the early publication of his works bring Kants philosophy to the fore in Britain? OTL published in English only in 1900, how could Georgian and Victorian Britain have differed? Might Kant have been taught comparatively alongside Hume...

Many people have posted threads asking what a world would be like without Christianity, or Islam, or perhaps even a world without Abrahamic Religions entirely. Obviously, PODs that occur centuries or millennia before the birth of the Buddha will obviously butterfly away Buddhism if the said POD...

Similar to my thread on "Return of the Jedi," your challenge is to improve the sequels to "The Matrix." While the original was widely panned, the sequels received mixed to negative reception. What could the filmmakers have done to make them better?

Now what I'm asking u is to create one or more POD to wank or expand the influence that the Enlightenment had in Europe. I'm especially talking about politics but obviously multiple areas will be affected, from art to culture I'm also working on a map so stay tuned

As it says on tin. Discuss as you please.

Just out of curiosity, how exactly would philosophy develop in Classical Antiquity if Christianity never came about? For our purposes, let's say Jesus was never born and no equivalent off-shot movement arises that gains the same traction in Judaism. From my understanding, there was a degree of...

How would the pre ww1 artistic trends have developed without the disruption of the world wars? Would futurism become even more important? Does modernism still arise? What about art deco?

“...You must not, best of men, abdicate the kingship of your fathers and embark upon this unwise course, painful, rocky and full of thorns. Consecrate yourself in prosperous Ayodhyā; the city is waiting for you, wearing her single braid of hair. Indulge in priceless royal pleasures and enjoy...

Already did a similar topic. Here I would like to give more to the possible impact of the fork on science and the philosophical picture of the world. I can also tell you about the Soviet tendencies in the science and philosophy of the USSR.

Looking at a TL where Godwinson wins at Hastings in 1066 -- how does literature (writings on philosophy, history, etc) fare in England in the latter 11th to 13th centuries, compared to OTL? And how does this affect scholasticism and medieval academic culture in general? Relatedly, does anyone...

I have just posted another thread that serves as a companion to this one. In that thread, we may speculate on a world in which Plato's philosophy is completely lost to posterity. In this thread, I'd instead like to invite people to consider a world wherein the works and the philosophy of...

It has been said that Western philosophy is nothing more than a series of footnotes to the works of Plato. To be honest, I disagree with that. There have been many great philosophers since then, and even when we go back to Antiquity, I think Aristotle was just as important as Plato. In fact...

Alright, so I've got the beginnings of a TL in my mind, with a POD taking place around the Bronze Age Collapse (12th Century BC). This obviously means that most, if not all, of the religons from OTL will not be made ITTL. And while I probably could make up a bunch of the 'replacement' religions...