Sengzhao (Seng-Chao c. 378—413 C.E.) Sengzhao (Seng-Chao) was a Buddhist monk who lived during China’s “Period of Disunity” between the stability of the Han and Tang dynasties. His Zhaolun (Treatises of [Seng]zhao) is perhaps the most significant text for the study of early Mādhyamika (“middle-ist”) or Sanlun (“Three-Treatise”) Buddhism in China. His work may be the only extensive compilation of early Chinese Mādhyamika treatises available,

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Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832) Jeremy Bentham war ein englischer Philosoph und politischer Radikaler. Heute ist er vor allem für seine Moralphilosophie bekannt, insbesondere sein Prinzip des Utilitarismus, die Handlungen anhand ihrer Konsequenzen bewertet. Die entsprechenden Konsequenzen, insbesondere, sind das allgemeine Glück, das für alle von der Aktion Betroffenen geschaffen wird. Beeinflusst von vielen Denkern der Aufklärung, insbesondere Empiriker wie John Locke und David Hume, Bentham entwickelte sich

Luce Irigaray (1930—) Luce Irigaray is a prominent author in contemporary French feminism and Continental philosophy. She is an interdisciplinary thinker who works between philosophy, Psychoanalyse, and linguistics. Originally a student of the famous analyst Jacques Lacan, Irigaray’s departure from Lacan in Speculum of the Other Woman, where she critiques the exclusion of women from both philosophy and psychoanalytic theory, earned her recognition as a

Human Dignity The mercurial concept of human dignity features in ethical, legal, and political discourse as a foundational commitment to human value or human status. The source of that value, or the nature of that status, are contested. The normative implications of the concept are also contested, and there are two partially, or even wholly, different deontic conceptions of human dignity implying virtue-based obligations on

Resurrection The term “resurrection” refers to the raising of someone from the dead. The resurrection of the dead brings to the forefront topics from the study of personal identity and philosophical anthropology. Zum Beispiel, some people think that we have souls and that the souls play an important role in resurrection. Others claim that we do not have souls and that this is a reason