Neo-Kantianism By its broadest definition, the term ‘Neo-Kantianism’ names any thinker after Kant who both engages substantively with the basic ramifications of his transcendental idealism and casts their own project at least roughly within his terminological framework. In diesem Sinne, thinkers as diverse as Schopenhauer, Mach, Husserl, Foucault, Strawson, Kuhn, Sellers, Nancy, Korsgaard, and Friedman could loosely be considered Neo-Kantian. Genauer gesagt, ‘Neo-Kantianism’ refers to

Legal Validity Legal validity governs the enforceability of law, and the standard of legal validity enhances or restricts the ability of the political ruler to enforce his will through legal coercion. Western law adopts three competing standards of legal validity. Each standard emphasizes a different dimension of law (Berman 1988, P. 779), and each has its own school of jurisprudence. Legal positivism emphasizes law’s political

Mathematical Nominalism Mathematical nominalism can be described as the view that mathematical entities—entities such as numbers, Sätze, Funktionen, and groups—do not exist. Aber, stating the view requires some care. Though the opposing view (that mathematical objects do exist) may seem like a somewhat exotic metaphysical claim, it is usually motivated by the thought that mathematical objects are required to exist in order for mathematical claims

Moral Character At the heart of one major approach to ethics—an approach counting among its proponents Plato, Aristoteles, Augustine and Aquinas—is the conviction that ethics is fundamentally related to what kind of persons we are. Many of Plato’s dialogues, Zum Beispiel, focus on what kind of persons we ought to be and begin with examinations of particular virtues: What is the nature of justice? (Republic)

Classification One of the main topics of scientific research is classification. Classification is the operation of distributing objects into classes or groups—which are, Im Algemeinen, less numerous than them. It has a long history that has developed during four periods: (1) Antiquity, where its lineaments may be found in the writings of Plato and Aristotle; (2) The Classical Age, with natural scientists from Linnaeus to