Applied Ethics Under what conditions is an abortion morally permissible? Does a citizen have a moral obligation to actively participate (perhaps by voting) in the democratic process of one’s nation (assuming one is living in a democracy)? What obligations, si seulement, does one have to the global poor? Under what conditions is female genital excision morally permissible? If there are conditions under which it is

The Bhagavad Gītā The Bhagavad Gītā occurs at the start of the sixth book of the Mahābhārata—one of South Asia’s two main epics, formulated at the start of the Common Era (C.E.). It is a dialog on moral philosophy. The lead characters are the warrior Arjuna and his royal cousin, Kṛṣṇa, who offered to be his charioteer and who is also an avatar of the

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

Friedrich Nietzsche: Philosophy of History Nietzsche was well-steeped in his contemporary methods and debates in the philosophy of history, which carried over into his philosophy in essential ways. Once a prodigy in classical philology, Nietzsche’s philosophy is everywhere concerned with traditions, historical shifts in custom and meaning, et, to adapt his key expression, “how things become what they are”. Beyond these, Nietzsche was closely concerned

Moral Relativism Moral relativism is the view that moral judgments are true or false only relative to some particular standpoint (par exemple, that of a culture or a historical period) and that no standpoint is uniquely privileged over all others. It has often been associated with other claims about morality: notably, the thesis that different cultures often exhibit radically different moral values; the denial that