History of African Philosophy This article traces the history of systematic African philosophy from the early 1920s to date. In Plato’s Theaetetus, Socrates suggests that philosophy begins with wonder. Aristotle agreed. Toutefois, recent research shows that wonder may have different subsets. If that is the case, which specific subset of wonder inspired the beginning of the systematic African philosophy? In the history of Western philosophy, là

Desert Desert is a normative concept that is used in day-to-day life. Many believe that being treated as one deserves to be treated is a matter of justice, fairness, or rightness. Although desert claims come in a variety of forms, generally they are claims about some positive or negative treatment that someone or something ought to receive. One might claim that a hard-working employee deserves

The Bakhtin Circle The Bakhtin Circle was a 20th century school of Russian thought which centered on the work of Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin (1895-1975). The circle addressed philosophically the social and cultural issues posed by the Russian Revolution and its degeneration into the Stalin dictatorship. Their work focused on the centrality of questions of significance in social life in general and artistic creation in particular,

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

Le conséquentialisme Le conséquentialisme est l’idée selon laquelle la moralité consiste avant tout à produire les bons types de conséquences globales.. Ici, l’expression « conséquences globales » d’une action désigne tout ce que l’action entraîne., y compris l'action elle-même. Par exemple, si vous pensez que tout l'intérêt de la moralité est (À) pour répandre le bonheur et soulager la souffrance, ou (b) créer autant de liberté que possible dans

Non-Cognitivism in Ethics A non-cognitivist theory of ethics implies that ethical sentences are neither true nor false, c'est, they lack truth-values. What this means will be investigated by giving a brief logical-linguistic analysis explaining the different illocutionary senses of normative sentences. The analysis will make sense of how normative sentences play their proper role even though they lack truth values, a fact which is