Kwasi Wiredu (1931— ) Kwasi Wiredu is a philosopher from Ghana, who has for decades been involved with a project he terms “conceptual decolonization” in contemporary African systems of thought. By conceptual decolonization, Wiredu advocates a re-examination of current African epistemic formations in order to accomplish two aims. Erste, he wishes to subvert unsavory aspects of tribal culture embedded in modern African thought so as to

Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908—1961) Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s work is commonly associated with the philosophical movement called existentialism and its intention to begin with an analysis of the concrete experiences, perceptions, and difficulties, of human existence. Aber, he never propounded quite the same extreme accounts of radical freedom, being-towards-death, anguished responsibility, and conflicting relations with others, for which existentialism became both famous and notorious in the 1940s and

Marcus Aurelius (121–180 n. Chr.) Die Philosophie des römischen Kaisers Marcus Aurelius findet sich in einer Sammlung persönlicher Schriften, die als Meditationen bekannt sind. Diese spiegeln den Einfluss des Stoizismus wider, insbesondere, Die Philosophie des Epiktet, der Stoiker. Die Meditationen können als eine Reihe praktischer philosophischer Übungen gelesen werden, im Anschluss an die drei Studienthemen von Epictetus, Entwickelt, um es zu verdauen und in die Praxis umzusetzen

Aesthetics in Continental Philosophy Although aesthetics is a significant area of research in its own right in the analytic philosophical tradition, Der Ästhetik wird häufig ein geringerer Stellenwert beigemessen als der Sprachphilosophie, Logik, Erkenntnistheorie, Metaphysik, und andere Bereiche der Werttheorie wie Ethik und politische Philosophie. Viele der bekanntesten analytischen Philosophen haben überhaupt nicht über Ästhetik geschrieben. Matters stand very

Al-Shahrastānī (d. 1153 C.E.) Al-Shahrastānī (d. A.H. 548 / C.E. 1153) was an influential historian of religions and a heresiographer. He was one of the pioneers in developing a scientific approach to the study of religions. Al-Shahrastānī’ distinguished himself by his desire to describe in the most objective way the universal religious history of humanity. He was wrongly recognized as an “Ash‘arite” theologian; this is why

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).