In Chapter 21 of the Book of Genesis we are told how the division between Jews and Arabs (later Muslims) came about. Hang tough for this is a complex story. Because he and his wife Sarah had waited unsuccessfully for a child, Abraham had taken a slave wife in order to have a son. He…

Materialism (Democritus, Epictetus, and Lucretius) Idealism (Berkeley) Democritus (c. 400 BCE) was a pre-Socratic thinker who claimed that reality is composed exclusively of infinitesimal indestructible “Atoms” (in Greek the word ‘atom’ literally means “unbreakable”) thus his theory was called “Atomism” These tiny “seed-like” particles exist in a cosmic “void” and move around according to forces…