Understanding in Epistemology Epistemology is often defined as the theory of knowledge, and talk of propositional knowledge (c'est, “S knows that p”) has dominated the bulk of modern literature in epistemology. Toutefois, epistemologists have recently started to turn more attention to the epistemic state or states of understanding, asking questions about its nature, relationship to knowledge, connection with explanation, and potential status as a

Deconstruction Although deconstruction has roots in Martin Heidegger’s concept of Destruktion, to deconstruct is not to destroy. Deconstruction is always a double movement of simultaneous affirmation and undoing. It started out as a way of reading the history of metaphysics in Heidegger and Jacques Derrida, but was soon applied to the interpretation of literary, religieux, and legal texts as well as philosophical ones, and was

The Upaniṣads The Upaniṣads are ancient texts from India that were composed orally in Sanskrit between about 700 B.C.E. and 300 B.C.E. There are thirteen major Upaniṣads, many of which were likely composed by multiple authors and are comprised of a variety of styles. As part of a larger group of texts, known as the Vedas, the Upaniṣads were composed in a ritual context, encore

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Positivisme juridique Le positivisme juridique est une philosophie du droit qui met l'accent sur la nature conventionnelle du droit, à savoir qu'il est socialement construit.. Selon le positivisme juridique, le droit est synonyme de normes positives, c'est, normes édictées par le législateur ou considérées comme relevant de la common law ou de la jurisprudence. Critères formels d’origine du droit, l’application de la loi et l’efficacité juridique sont toutes suffisantes pour que les normes sociales soient considérées comme des lois..