Philosophie chinoise: Overview of Topics If Chinese philosophy may be said to have begun around 2000 B.C.E., then it represents the longest continuous heritage of philosophical reflection. Trying to mention each philosopher or every significant…
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Foire aux questions sur le temps
Foire aux questions sur le temps Ce supplément fournit des informations générales sur de nombreux sujets abordés à la fois dans l'article principal sur le temps et dans son article complémentaire What Else Science Requires of Time. It is not…
Moral Character
Moral Character At the heart of one major approach to ethics—an approach counting among its proponents Plato, Aristote, Augustine and Aquinas—is the conviction that ethics is fundamentally related to what kind of persons we are….
Logique propositionnelle
Propositional Logic Propositional logic, also known as sentential logic and statement logic, is the branch of logic that studies ways of joining and/or modifying entire propositions, statements or sentences to form more complicated propositions, déclarations…
Esthétique
Esthétique L'esthétique peut être définie au sens strict comme la théorie de la beauté., ou plus largement avec la philosophie de l'art. L'intérêt traditionnel pour la beauté elle-même s'est élargi, au XVIIIe siècle, to include…
Time Travel
Time Travel Time travel is commonly defined with David Lewis’ definition: An object time travels if and only if the difference between its departure and arrival times as measured in the surrounding world does not…
Avicenna (Ibn Sina) (c. 980—1037)
Avicenna (Ibn Sina) (c. 980—1037) Abu ‘Ali al-Husayn ibn Sina is better known in Europe by the Latinized name “Avicenna.” He is probably the most significant philosopher in the Islamic tradition and arguably the most…
Surrogate Parenting
Surrogate Parenting Surrogate parenting is an arrangement in which one or more persons, typically a married infertile couple (the intended rearing parents), contract with a woman to gestate a child for them and then to…
Platonisme et théisme
Platonisme et théisme Cet article explore la compatibilité de, et la relation entre, les visions métaphysiques platoniciennes et théistes. Selon le platonisme, there is a realm of necessarily existing abstract objects comprising a framework of reality…
Paradox of Hedonism
Paradox of Hedonism Varieties of hedonism have been criticized from ancient to modern times. Along the way, philosophers have also considered the paradox of hedonism. The paradox is a common objection to hedonism, even if they…