G. E. M. Anscombe (1919—2001) Elizabeth Anscombe, or Miss Anscombe as she was known, was an important twentieth century philosopher and one of the most important women philosophers of all time. A committed Catholic, and translator of some of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s most important work, she was an influential and original thinker in the Catholic tradition and the Wittgensteinian manner. Although she worked in almost every

Plato: Meno Platons „Meno“ stellt Aspekte der sokratischen Ethik und platonischen Erkenntnistheorie in einem fiktiven Dialog vor, der zwischen wichtigen politischen Ereignissen und kulturellen Belangen in den letzten Lebensjahren von Sokrates angesiedelt ist. Es beginnt abrupt, Vorgefertigte Debattenherausforderung von Meno darüber, ob Tugend gelehrt werden kann, und wird schnell zu einer offenen und ergebnislosen Suche nach der Essenz dieser schwer fassbaren „Tugend“.," oder

Jean Paul Sartre: Existenzialismus Die philosophische Karriere von Jean Paul Sartre (1905-1980) konzentriert sich, in seiner ersten Phase, über die Konstruktion einer Existenzphilosophie, die als Existentialismus bekannt ist. Sartres frühe Werke zeichnen sich durch eine Weiterentwicklung der klassischen Phänomenologie aus, aber seine Überlegungen weichen von denen Husserls zur Methodologie ab, die Vorstellung vom Selbst, und ein Interesse an Ethik. Diese Divergenzpunkte sind die Eckpfeiler von

Cyrenaics The Cyrenaics are one of the minor Socratic schools. The school was founded by Aristippus, a follower of Socrates. The Cyrenaics are notable mainly for their empiricist and skeptical epistemology and their sensualist hedonism. They believe that we can have certain knowledge of our immediate states of perceptual awareness, Zum Beispiel, that I am seeing white now. Aber, we cannot go beyond these experiences

Bertrand Russell: Ethics This article confines itself to Bertrand Russell’s conversion from ethical cognitivism (similar to G. E. Moore) to ethical non-cognitivism (similar to Ayer). Russell’s conversion is not only historically important, as it contributes to the rise of metaethics, but it also clarifies the central issues between cognitivism and non-cognitivism. Traditionell, ethics has been understood as a branch of philosophy that focuses on normative

Hegel: Social and Political Thought Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) is one of the greatest systematic thinkers in the history of Western philosophy. In addition to epitomizing German idealist philosophy, Hegel boldly claimed that his own system of philosophy represented an historical culmination of all previous philosophical thought. Hegel’s overall encyclopedic system is divided into the science of Logic, the philosophy of Nature, and the philosophy