Abu Ya’qub al-Sijistani (fl. 971) Abu Ya‘qub al-Sijistani was first and foremost a member of the Ismaili underground mission — the da‘wa, as it is known in Arabic — that operated in the Iranian province of Khurasan and Sijistan during the tenth century. In the later part of his life, al-Sijistani was or had become a supporter of the Fatimids imams, then ruling from their

Liezi (Lieh-tzu, cn. 4th cn. avant notre ère) The Liezi (Lieh-tzu), or Master Lie may be considered to be the third of the Chinese philosophical texts in the line of thought represented by the Laozi and the Zhuangzi, subsequently classified as Daojia (“the School of the Way”) or Daoist philosophy. Whether Master Lie existed as an actual person or not, the text bears his name in order

Frantz Fanon (1925-1961) Frantz Fanon était l'un des rares penseurs extraordinaires à soutenir les luttes de décolonisation qui ont eu lieu après la Seconde Guerre mondiale., et il reste parmi ces voix les plus lues et les plus influentes.. Sa brève vie a été remarquable à la fois par son engagement sans réserve dans la lutte pour l'indépendance que le peuple algérien a menée contre la France et par son astuce, analyses passionnées de l'impulsion humaine vers

Aristote: Biologie Aristote (384-322 avant notre ère) peut être considéré comme le premier biologiste de la tradition occidentale. Bien qu'il y ait des médecins et d'autres philosophes naturels qui font des remarques sur diverses flores et faunes avant Aristote., aucun d’eux n’apporte à son étude un empirisme critique systématique. La science biologique d’Aristote est importante à comprendre, non seulement parce qu'il nous donne un aperçu de l'histoire et de la philosophie de

Nicholas Rescher (1928—) Nicholas Rescher (1928- ) is a prominent representative of contemporary pragmatism, mais, unlike most analytic thinkers, he managed to establish himself as a systematic philosopher. En particulier, he built a system of “pragmatic idealism” that combines elements of the European continental idealism with American pragmatism. One of the most salient features of Rescher¹s work is the breadth of topics with which he

Models The word “model” is highly ambiguous, and there is no uniform terminology used by either scientists or philosophers. Ici, a model is considered to be a representation of some object, behavior, or system that one wants to understand. This article presents the most common type of models found in science as well as the different relations—traditionally called “analogies”—between models and between a given model