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 influential philosopher of the pre-modern era. Born in Afshana near Bukhara in Central Asia in about 980, he is best known as a polymath, as a physician whose major work

Dieu merci, Frege (1848-1925) Gottlob Frege était un logicien allemand, mathématicien et philosophe qui a joué un rôle crucial dans l'émergence de la logique moderne et de la philosophie analytique. Les travaux logiques de Frege étaient révolutionnaires, et sont souvent considérées comme représentant la rupture fondamentale entre les approches contemporaines et les approches plus anciennes., Tradition aristotélicienne. Il a inventé la logique quantification moderne, et a créé le premier système entièrement axiomatique pour la logique, which was complete

Egoism In philosophy, egoism is the theory that one’s self is, ou devrait être, the motivation and the goal of one’s own action. Egoism has two variants, descriptive or normative. The descriptive (or positive) variant conceives egoism as a factual description of human affairs. C'est, people are motivated by their own interests and desires, and they cannot be described otherwise. The normative variant proposes

Lucien Blaga (1895-1961) Lucian Blaga était un éminent philosophe d'Europe de l'Est pendant la période entre les deux guerres mondiales.. Formé à la fois en théologie orthodoxe orientale et en philosophie classique, il a développé une philosophie « spéculative » qui comprend des livres sur l'épistémologie, métaphysique, esthétique, philosophie de la culture, anthropologie philosophique, philosophie de l'histoire, philosophie des sciences, et philosophie de la religion. A chair in philosophy of culture was created for

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Alasdair Chalmers MacIntyre (1929— ) Alasdair MacIntyre is a Scottish born, British educated, moral and political philosopher who has worked in the United States since 1970. His work in ethics and politics reaches across disciplines, drawing on sociology and philosophy of the social sciences as well as Greek and Latin classical literature. MacIntyre began his career as a Marxist, but in the late 1950s, il