Hegel: Social and Political Thought Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) is one of the greatest systematic thinkers in the history of Western philosophy. In addition to epitomizing German idealist philosophy, Hegel boldly claimed that his own system of philosophy represented an historical culmination of all previous philosophical thought. Hegel’s overall encyclopedic system is divided into the science of Logic, the philosophy of Nature, and the philosophy

George Herbert Mead (1863-1931) George Herbert Mead est une figure majeure de l'histoire de la philosophie américaine, l'un des fondateurs du pragmatisme avec Peirce, James, Touffes, et Dewey. Il a publié de nombreux articles au cours de sa vie et, suite à sa mort, plusieurs de ses étudiants ont produit quatre livres en son nom à partir des publications inédites de Mead. (et même inachevé) notes et manuscrits, à partir des notes des élèves, and from

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

Gottfried Leibniz: Philosophy of Mind Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) was a true polymath: he made substantial contributions to a host of different fields such as mathematics, loi, physics, théologie, and most subfields of philosophy. Within the philosophy of mind, his chief innovations include his rejection of the Cartesian doctrines that all mental states are conscious and that non-human animals lack souls as well as sensation.

Moral Particularism Moral particularism is the view that the moral status of an action is not in any way determined by moral principles; plutôt, it depends on the configuration of the morally relevant features of the action in a particular context. It can be seen as a reaction against a traditional principled conception of morality as comprising a true and coherent set of moral principles.

Wuxing (Wu-hsing) The Chinese term wuxing (wu-hsing, “five processes” or “five phases”) refers to a fivefold conceptual scheme that is found throughout traditional Chinese thought. These five phases are wood (dans), feu (huo), Terre (tu), métal (Jin), and water (shui); they are regarded as dynamic, interdependent modes or aspects of the universe’s ongoing existence and development. Although this fivefold scheme resembles ancient Greek discourse about