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David Hume: Moral Philosophy Although David Hume (1711-1776) is commonly known for his philosophical skepticism, and empiricist theory of knowledge, he also made many important contributions to moral philosophy. Hume’s ethical thought grapples with questions…
René Descartes: Scientific Method René Descartes’ major work on scientific method was the Discourse that was published in 1637 (more fully: Discourse on the Method for Rightly Directing One’s Reason and Searching for Truth in the Sciences)….
Xénophon (430—354 B.C.E.) Xenophon was a Greek philosopher, soldier, historien, memoirist, and the author of numerous practical treatises on subjects ranging from horsemanship to taxation. While best known in the contemporary philosophical world as the…
Totalitarianism Totalitarianism is best understood as any system of political ideas that is both thoroughly dictatorial and utopian. It is an ideal type of governing notion, and as such, it cannot be realised perfectly. Faced…
Medieval Theories of Free Will Why do human beings perform the actions they perform? What moves them to act? Why do we blame a human being for knocking over the vase and not the family…
Ancient Greek Philosophy From Thales, who is often considered the first Western philosopher, to the Stoics and Skeptics, ancient Greek philosophy opened the doors to a particular way of thinking that provided the roots for…
Normand Malcolm (1911-1990) Norman Malcolm a joué un rôle déterminant dans l’élaboration et la défense de la philosophie de Wittgenstein, qu'il considérait comme s'apparentant à une sorte de philosophie du « langage ordinaire », en Amérique. He also defended a novel interpretation of Moore’s…
Aesthetic Formalism Formalism in aesthetics has traditionally been taken to refer to the view in the philosophy of art that the properties in virtue of which an artwork is an artwork—and in virtue of which…
Le Platonisme moyen La période désignée par les historiens de la philosophie comme le « Platonisme moyen » commence avec Antiochus d'Ascalon. (Californie. 130-68 avant notre ère) et se termine par Plotin (204-70 de notre ère), qui est considéré comme le fondateur du néoplatonisme. Le…
José Ortega et Gasset (1883—1955) In the roughly 6,000 pages that Spanish philosopher José Ortega y Gasset wrote on the humanities, he covered a wide variety of topics. This captures the kind of thinker he…