Guo Xiang (c. 252-312 de notre ère) Guo Xiang (également connu sous le nom de Kuo Hsiang et Zixuan) est l'auteur du commentaire le plus important sur le texte taoïste classique Zhuangzi (Tchouang-tseu). Il est responsable de la disposition actuelle de trente-trois chapitres divisés en, sections extérieures et diverses. Son commentaire représente une réalisation philosophique substantielle qui a été comparée au Zhuangzi lui-même.. Apparemment, le but de

Intentionality If I think about a piano, something in my thought picks out a piano. If I talk about cigars, something in my speech refers to cigars. This feature of thoughts and words, whereby they pick out, refer to, or are about things, is intentionality. In a word, intentionality is aboutness. Many mental states exhibit intentionality. If I believe that the weather is rainy today,

Manbendra Nath Roy (1887—1954) M. N. Roy was a twentieth century Indian philosopher. He began his career as a militant political activist and left India in 1915 in search of arms for organizing an insurrection against British rule in India. Toutefois, Roy’s attempts to secure arms ended in a failure, and finally in June 1916, he landed in San Francisco, Californie. It was there that Roy,

Stoic Philosophy of Mind Stoicism was one of the most important and enduring philosophies to emerge from the Greek and Roman world. The Stoics are well known for their contributions to moral philosophy, and more recently they have also been recognized for their work in logic, grammaire, philosophie du langage, and epistemology. This article examines the Stoics’ contributions to philosophy of mind. The Stoics constructed

Thomas d'Aquin (1224/6—1274) St. Thomas Aquinas was a Dominican priest and Scriptural theologian. He took seriously the medieval maxim that “grace perfects and builds on nature; it does not set it aside or destroy it.” Therefore, insofar as Thomas thought about philosophy as the discipline that investigates what we can know naturally about God and human beings, he thought that good Scriptural theology, since it

Emmanuel Kant: Aesthetics Immanuel Kant is an 18th century German philosopher whose work initated dramatic changes in the fields of epistemology, métaphysique, éthique, esthétique, et téléologie. Comme beaucoup de penseurs des Lumières, il tient notre faculté mentale de raison en haute estime; il croit que c'est notre raison qui investit le monde que nous vivons avec une structure. Dans ses travaux sur l'esthétique et la téléologie, he argues that