Open Theism Open Theism is the thesis that, because God loves us and desires that we freely choose to reciprocate His love, He has made His knowledge of, and plans for, the future conditional upon our actions. Though omniscient, God does not know what we will freely do in the future. Though omnipotent, He has chosen to invite us to freely collaborate with Him in

Mencius (c. 372-289 avant notre ère) Mieux connu en Chine sous le nom de « Maître Meng » (Chinois: Mengzi), Mencius était un penseur chinois du IVe siècle avant notre ère dont l'importance dans la tradition confucéenne est juste derrière celle de Confucius lui-même.. À bien des égards, il a joué le rôle de St. Paul à Jésus de Confucius, interpréter la pensée du maître pour les époques ultérieures tout en impressionnant simultanément les idées de Confucius avec sa propre philosophie.

Causalité mentale Le terme « causalité mentale » s'applique aux transactions causales impliquant des événements ou des états mentaux., comme les croyances, désirs, sentiments, et perceptions. Typiquement, le terme est utilisé pour désigner les cas où un état mental provoque une réaction physique: par exemple, l'état mental de percevoir un frisbee volant dans votre direction peut provoquer l'événement physique de votre saut pour l'attraper. Cela devrait

Boredom: A History of Western Philosophical Perspectives The essayist Joseph Epstein has remarked, “Boredom is after all part of consciousness, and about consciousness the neurologists still have much less to tell us than do the poets and the philosophers.” Although not a major topic for Western philosophers, some important Western philosophers have spoken of it, and regarded it as a major philosophical theme of human

Environmental Ethics The field of environmental ethics concerns human beings’ ethical relationship with the natural environment. While numerous philosophers have written on this topic throughout history, environmental ethics only developed into a specific philosophical discipline in the 1970s. This emergence was no doubt due to the increasing awareness in the 1960s of the effects that technology, industry, economic expansion and population growth were having on

Cyrenaics The Cyrenaics are one of the minor Socratic schools. The school was founded by Aristippus, a follower of Socrates. The Cyrenaics are notable mainly for their empiricist and skeptical epistemology and their sensualist hedonism. They believe that we can have certain knowledge of our immediate states of perceptual awareness, par exemple, that I am seeing white now. Toutefois, we cannot go beyond these experiences