Philosophie taoïste et confucianisme, « taoïsme » (parfois appelé « taoïsme ») est l'une des deux grandes traditions philosophiques indigènes de Chine. En tant que terme anglais, Le taoïsme correspond à la fois au Daojia ("Famille Dao" ou "école des Dao"), une ancienne dynastie Han (c. 100s B.C.E.) terme qui désigne des textes dits « philosophiques » et des penseurs tels que Laozi et Zhuangzi, et Daojiao (« enseignement du Dao »), which describes various

Bertrand Russel: Logic For Russell, Aristotelian syllogistic inference does not do justice to the subject of logic. This is surely not surprising. It may well be something of a surprise, cependant, to learn that in Russell’s view neither Boolean algebra nor modern quantification theory do justice to the subject. For Russell, logic is a synthetic a priori science studying all the kinds of structures there.

Sarah Grimké (1792—1873) and Angelina Grimké Weld (1805—1879) Sarah Grimké and Angelina Grimké Weld, sisters from a South Carolina slave-holding family, were active abolitionist public speakers and pioneer women’s rights advocates in a time when American women rarely occupied the public stage. Their personal stories about the horrors of slavery made them effective agents in the Northern abolitionist movement, and their subsequent marginalization in the leadership

Nikolai Fedorovich Fedorov (1829—1903) Fedorov’s thoughts have been variously described as bold, culminating, curious, easily-misunderstood, extrême, hazy, idealist, naive, of-value, scientifico-magical, special, unexpected, unique, and utopian. Many of the small number of philosophers familiar with Fedorov admit his originality, his independence, his human concern, perhaps even his logic — up to a point. But his resurrection project is viewed with understandable skepticism and often dismissed

Adam Smith (1723—1790) Adam Smith is often identified as the father of modern capitalism. While accurate to some extent, this description is both overly simplistic and dangerously misleading. D'un côté, it is true that very few individual books have had as much impact as his An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. His accounts of the division of