Reflexionen des Lebens, Blog über moderne Philosophie, Literarische Essays und tiefe Gedanken für persönliches Wachstum
Wecken Sie Ihren Geist und erkunden Sie die großen Fragen des Lebens in unserem Philosophie-Wiki!! Entdecken Sie alles über das menschliche Denken an einem Ort.
Tu Weiming (1940—) Tu Weiming (pinyin: Du Weiming) is one of the most famous Chinese Confucian thinkers of the 20th and 21st centuries. As a prominent member of the third generation of “New Confucians,” Tu stressed the significance of religiosity within Confucianism. Inspired by his teacher Mou Zongsan as well as his decades of study and teaching at Princeton University, the University of California, und
Deductive and Inductive Arguments In philosophy, an argument consists of a set of statements called premises that serve as grounds for affirming another statement called the conclusion. Philosophers typically distinguish arguments in natural languages (such as English) into two fundamentally different types: deductive and inductive. Each type of argument is said to have characteristics that categorically distinguish it from the other type. The two types
Vasubandhu (fl. 4. oder 5. Jh. C.E.) Vasubandhu war ein bekannter buddhistischer Lehrer und eine der wichtigsten Figuren in der Entwicklung des Mahyna-Buddhismus in Indien. Allerdings wird er von späteren Buddhisten besonders als Mitbegründer der Yogcra-Schule zusammen mit seinem Halbbruder Asanga bewundert, seine Vor-Yogcra-Werke, wie der Abhidharmakosha und sein Autokommentar (Abhidharmakoshashya) darauf, gelten als Meisterwerke. Er
Internalism and Externalism in Epistemology The internalism-externalism (I-E) debate lies near the center of contemporary discussion about epistemology. The basic idea of internalism is that justification is solely determined by factors that are internal to a person. Externalists deny this, asserting that justification depends on additional factors that are external to a person. A significant aspect of the I-E debate involves setting out exactly what
Animals and Ethics What place should non-human animals have in an acceptable moral system? These animals exist on the borderline of our moral concepts; the result is that we sometimes find ourselves according them a strong moral status, while at other times denying them any kind of moral status at all. Zum Beispiel, public outrage is strong when knowledge of “puppy mills” is made available;
The Axiology of Theism The existential question about God asks whether God exists, but the axiology of theism addresses the question of what value-impact, wenn überhaupt, God’s existence does (or would) have on our world and its inhabitants. There are two prominent answers to the axiological question about God. Pro-theism is the view that God’s existence does (or would) add value to our world. Anti-theism,