René Descartes: Ethik Dieser Artikel beschreibt die Hauptthemen der Ethik von Descartes anhand der Diskussion wichtiger Primärtexte und entsprechender Interpretationen in der Sekundärliteratur. Obwohl Descartes nie eine Abhandlung geschrieben hat, die sich ausschließlich der Ethik widmete, Kommentatoren haben eine Reihe von Texten entdeckt, die eine umfassende Analyse der Tugend belegen, das gute, Glück, moralisches Urteil, die Leidenschaften, und die systematische Beziehung zwischen Ethik und dem Rest

Political Realism Political realism is a theory of political philosophy that attempts to explain, model, and prescribe political relations. It takes as its assumption that power is (or ought to be) the primary end of political action, whether in the domestic or international arena. In the domestic arena, the theory asserts that politicians do, or should, strive to maximize their power, whilst on the international

Pejorative Language Some words can hurt. Slurs, insults, and swears can be highly offensive and derogatory. Some theorists hold that the derogatory capacity of a pejorative word or phrase is best explained by the content it expresses. In opposition to content theories, deflationism denies that there is any specifically derogatory content expressed by pejoratives. As noun phrases, ‘insult’ and ‘slur’ refer to symbolic vehicles designed

Erkenntnistheorie und Relativismus Erkenntnistheorie ist, grob, Die philosophische Erkenntnistheorie, seine Art und sein Umfang. Welchen Status haben erkenntnistheoretische Behauptungen?? Relativisten betrachten den Status von (zumindest einige Arten von) erkenntnistheoretische Ansprüche als, in gewisser Weise, relativ – das heißt, dass die Wahrheiten, die (einige Arten von) Die erkenntnistheoretischen Behauptungen, die angestrebt werden, sind relative Wahrheiten. Selbst beschriebene Relativisten variieren, manchmal dramatisch, wie sie

Jacques Derrida (1930—2004) Jacques Derrida was one of the most well known twentieth century philosophers. He was also one of the most prolific. Distancing himself from the various philosophical movements and traditions that preceded him on the French intellectual scene (phenomenology, Existentialismus, and structuralism), he developed a strategy called “deconstruction” in the mid 1960s. Although not purely negative, deconstruction is primarily concerned with something tantamount

Victor Kraft (1880—1975) Victor Kraft was an Austrian philosopher and librarian. Er war, as he himself emphasized, a “non-orthodox” member of the Vienna Circle and tried to reintroduce scientific philosophy in Austria after the Second World War. Beginning in 1903, Kraft argued for epistemology based on ontological realism. He did not claim that realism can be proven logically but is established as an (abductive) inference