The American Environmental Justice Movement The origin of the American environmental justice movement can be traced back to the emergence of the American Civil Rights movement of the 1960s, and more specifically to the U.S. Civil Rights Act of 1964. The movement reached a new level with the emergence of Robert Bullard’s work entitled Dumping in Dixie in the 1990’s, which constituted a clarion call

Political Revolution Revolutions are commonly understood as instances of fundamental socio-political transformation. Since “the age of revolutions” in the late 18th century, political philosophers and theorists have developed approaches aimed at defining what forms of change can count as revolutionary (as opposed to, par exemple, reformist types of change) as well as determining if and under what conditions such change can be justified by normative

La théorie classique des concepts La théorie classique des concepts est l'une des cinq principales théories des concepts., les quatre autres étant des théories prototypes ou exemplaires, théories atomistiques, théorie-théories, et théories néoclassiques. La théorie classique implique que chaque concept complexe a une analyse classique, où une analyse classique d'un concept est une proposition donnant des conditions métaphysiquement nécessaires et conjointement suffisantes pour être en

Charles Sanders Peirce: Architectonic Philosophy The subject matter of architectonic is the structure of all human knowledge. The purpose of providing an architectonic scheme is to classify different types of knowledge and explain the relationships that exist between these classifications. The architectonic system of C. S. Pierce (1839-1914) divides knowledge according to it status as a “science” and then explains the interrelation of these different scientific

Philo of Alexandria (c. 20 B.C.E.—40 C.E.) Philo of Alexandria, a Hellenized Jew also called Judaeus Philo, is a figure that spans two cultures, the Greek and the Hebrew. When Hebrew mythical thought met Greek philosophical thought in the first century B.C.E. it was only natural that someone would try to develop speculative and philosophical justification for Judaism in terms of Greek philosophy. Thus Philo