Eduard Hanslick (1825–1904) Eduard Hanslick war ein in Prag geborener österreichischer Ästhetiktheoretiker, Musikkritiker, und der erste Professor für Ästhetik und Musikgeschichte an der Universität Wien, der gemeinhin als Begründer des musikalischen Formalismus in der Ästhetik gilt. His seminal treatise Vom Musikalisch-Schönen (Über das Musikalisch Schöne) von 1854 ist einer der bedeutendsten Beiträge zur Musikästhetik, die jemals geschrieben wurden, wie es offensichtlich ist

Richard Rorty (1931—2007) Richard Rorty was an important American philosopher of the late twentieth and early twenty-first century who blended expertise in philosophy and comparative literature into a perspective called “The New Pragmatism” or “neopragmatism.” Rejecting the Platonist tradition at an early age, Rorty was initially attracted to analytic philosophy. As his views matured he came to believe that this tradition suffered in its own

Paradigm Case Arguments From time to time philosophers and scientists have made sensational, provocative claims that certain things do not exist or never happen that, in everyday life, we unquestioningly take for granted as existing or happening. These claims have included denying the existence of matter, Raum, Zeit, das Ich, Freier Wille, and other sturdy and basic elements of our common-sense or naïve world-view. Around

Resurrection The term “resurrection” refers to the raising of someone from the dead. The resurrection of the dead brings to the forefront topics from the study of personal identity and philosophical anthropology. Zum Beispiel, some people think that we have souls and that the souls play an important role in resurrection. Others claim that we do not have souls and that this is a reason