Dekonstruktion Obwohl die Dekonstruktion ihre Wurzeln in Martin Heideggers Konzept der Destruktion hat, Dekonstruieren heißt nicht zerstören. Dekonstruktion ist immer eine doppelte Bewegung der gleichzeitigen Bestätigung und des Rückgängigmachens. Es begann als eine Möglichkeit, die Geschichte der Metaphysik bei Heidegger und Jacques Derrida zu lesen, wurde aber bald auf die Interpretation literarischer Texte angewendet, religiös, und juristische Texte sowie philosophische, und war

Aesthetic Taste Taste is the most common trope when talking about the intellectual judgment of an object’s aesthetic merit. This popularity rose to an unprecedented degree in the eighteenth century, which is the main focus of this article. Taste became a major concept in aesthetics. This prominence was so pronounced that it might seem that taste as an aesthetic idea developed from nothing during this

Feng Youlan (Fung Yu-lan, 1895—1990) Feng Youlan (romanized as Fung Yu-lan) was a representative of modern Chinese philosophy. Throughout his long and turbulent life, he consistently engaged the problem of reconciling traditional Chinese thought with the methods and concerns of modern Western philosophy. Raised by a modernist family who nonetheless gave him a traditional Confucian education, Feng pursued two great goals during his career: rewriting

Locke: Erkenntnistheorie John Locke (1632-1704), einer der Begründer des britischen Empirismus, ist berühmt dafür, dass er darauf beharrt, dass alle unsere Ideen aus Erfahrung stammen, und dass er die Notwendigkeit empirischer Beweise betont. Er entwickelt seine empiristische Erkenntnistheorie in einem Essay über menschliches Verständnis, was spätere Empiriker wie George Berkeley und David Hume stark beeinflusste. In diesem Artikel, Lockes Essay dient zur Erläuterung seiner Kritik

Karl Popper: Political Philosophy Among philosophers, Karl Popper (1902-1994) is best known for his contributions to the philosophy of science and epistemology. Most of his published work addressed philosophical problems in the natural sciences, vor allem Physik; and Popper himself acknowledged that his primary interest was nature and not politics. Aber, his political thought has arguably had as great an impact as has his philosophy of

Charles Darwin (1809–1882) Charles Darwin is primarily known as the architect of the theory of evolution by natural selection. With the publication of On the Origin of Species in 1859, he advanced a view of the development of life on earth that profoundly shaped nearly all biological and much philosophical thought which followed. A number of prior authors had proposed that species were not static