Jane Addams (1860–1935) Jane Addams war eine Aktivistin und produktive Autorin in der Tradition des amerikanischen Pragmatismus, die zu einer landesweit anerkannten Anführerin des Progressivismus in den Vereinigten Staaten sowie zu einer international anerkannten Verfechterin des Friedens wurde. Addams wird vor allem für die Gründung der Chicagoer Sozialsiedlung gelobt, Rumpf-Haus, die zum Flaggschiff der Siedlungsbewegung wurde. Hull-House bot Addams eine unterstützende intellektuelle Gemeinschaft und

Human Rights Human rights are certain moral guarantees. This article examines the philosophical basis and content of the doctrine of human rights. The analysis consists of five sections and a conclusion. Section one assesses the contemporary significance of human rights, and it argues that the doctrine of human rights has become the dominant moral doctrine for evaluating the moral status of the contemporary geo-political order.

Liar Paradox The Liar Paradox is an argument that arrives at a contradiction by reasoning about a Liar Sentence. The Classical Liar Sentence is the self-referential sentence: This sentence is false. It leads to the same difficulties as the sentence, I am lying. Experts in the field of philosophical logic have never agreed on the way out of the trouble despite 2,300 years of attention.

African Sage Philosophy The Sage Philosophy Project began in the mid-1970s at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Nairobi Kenya. At the University, Henry Odera Oruka (1944-1995) popularized the term “Sage Philosophy Project,” and closely related terms such as “philosophic sagacity,” both by initiating a project of interviewing African sages, and by naming this project in a widely read popular article as the

Plato: The Academy Plato’s enormous impact on later philosophy, Ausbildung, and culture can be traced to three interrelated aspects of his philosophical life: his written philosophical dialogues, the teaching and writings of his student Aristotle, and the educational organization he began, “the Academy.” Plato’s Academy took its name from the place where its members congregated, the Akadēmeia, an area outside of the Athens city walls