Anne-Thérèse Marguenat de Courcelles, Marquise de Lambert (1647–1733) Eine prominente Salonnière im Frankreich Ludwigs XIV. und der Regentschaft, Madame de Lambert verfasste zahlreiche Aufsätze zu philosophischen Themen. Ihre berühmtesten Werke, zwei Anweisungen an ihren Sohn und ihre Tochter, Analysieren Sie die Tugenden, die von jedem Geschlecht in der Aristokratie gepflegt werden müssen. Männer streben nach Ruhm, während Frauen sich auf Demut konzentrieren. Während der literarischen Querelle

Edward Jonathan Lowe (1950-2014) Edward Jonathan Lowe (usually cited as E. J. Lowe) was one of the most significant philosophers of the twentieth and early twenty-first century. He made sustained and significant contributions to debates in metaphysics, Ontologie, Philosophie des Geistes, Philosophie der Sprache, philosophical logic, und Religionsphilosophie, as well as contributing important scholarly work in early modern philosophy (most notably on Locke).

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Reformed Epistemology Reformed epistemology is a thesis about the rationality of religious belief. A central claim made by the reformed epistemologist is that religious belief can be rational without any appeal to evidence or argument. Es gibt, broadly speaking, two ways that reformed epistemologists support this claim. The first is to argue that there is no way to successfully formulate the charge that religious belief

Paul Ricoeur (1913—2005) Paul Ricoeur was among the most impressive philosophers of the 20th century continental philosophers, both in the unusual breadth and depth of his philosophical scholarship and in the innovative nature of his thought. He was a prolific writer, and his work is essentially concerned with that grand theme of philosophy: the meaning of life. Ricoeur’s “tensive” style focuses on the tensions running