Responsabilité Nous évaluons les personnes et les groupes comme responsables ou non, selon le sérieux avec lequel ils prennent leurs responsabilités. Nous le faisons souvent de manière informelle, via un jugement moral. Parfois, nous le faisons formellement, par exemple dans un jugement juridique. Cet article considère principalement la responsabilité morale, et se concentre largement sur les individus. Les sections ultérieures commentent également la relation entre la responsabilité juridique et morale., et sur la responsabilité des collectifs.

Platonisme et théisme Cet article explore la compatibilité de, et la relation entre, les visions métaphysiques platoniciennes et théistes. Selon le platonisme, il existe un domaine d'objets abstraits nécessairement existants comprenant un cadre de réalité au-delà du monde matériel. Le platonisme soutient que ces objets abstraits ne proviennent pas d'une activité divine créatrice.. Le théisme traditionnel soutient que Dieu est avant tout le créateur et que Dieu est le

Divine Command Theory Philosophers both past and present have sought to defend theories of ethics that are grounded in a theistic framework. À peu près, Divine Command Theory is the view that morality is somehow dependent upon God, and that moral obligation consists in obedience to God’s commands. Divine Command Theory includes the claim that morality is ultimately based on the commands or character of God, et

Tu Weiming (1940—) Tu Weiming (pinyin: Du Weiming) is one of the most famous Chinese Confucian thinkers of the 20th and 21st centuries. As a prominent member of the third generation of “New Confucians,” Tu stressed the significance of religiosity within Confucianism. Inspired by his teacher Mou Zongsan as well as his decades of study and teaching at Princeton University, the University of California, et

Pluralist Theories of Truth Truth pluralism (or ‘alethic’ pluralism) is a view about the nature of truth. D'une manière générale, the thought behind the view is that truth may require different treatments for different kinds of subject matter. En particulier, there is the prospect for it to be consistent to conceive of truth in a realist manner for discourse about the material world, while maintaining an

Poincaré’s Philosophy of Mathematics Jules Henri Poincaré was an important French mathematician, scientist, and philosopher in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century who was especially known for his conventionalist philosophy. Most of his publishing was in analysis, topology, probability, mechanics and mathematical physics. His overall philosophy of mathematics is Kantian because he believes that intuition provides a foundation for all of mathematics, including geometry.