Theories of Emotion There are different theories of emotion to explain what emotions are and how they operate. This is challenging, since emotions can be analyzed from many different perspectives. Dans un sens, emotions are sophisticated and subtle, the epitome of what make us human. In another sense, cependant, human emotions seem to be very similar to (if not the same as) the responses that

Jérémy Bentham (1748—1832) Jeremy Bentham was an English philosopher and political radical. He is primarily known today for his moral philosophy, especially his principle of utilitarianism, which evaluates actions based upon their consequences. The relevant consequences, en particulier, are the overall happiness created for everyone affected by the action. Influenced by many enlightenment thinkers, especially empiricists such as John Locke and David Hume, Bentham developed

Stoic Ethics The tremendous influence Stoicism has exerted on ethical thought from early Christianity through Immanuel Kant and into the twentieth century is rarely understood and even more rarely appreciated. Tout au long de l'histoire, Les doctrines éthiques stoïciennes ont à la fois suscité de sévères critiques et inspiré des défenseurs enthousiastes.. Les stoïciens définissaient le but de la vie comme étant de vivre en accord avec la nature.. Les humains, contrairement à tous les autres animaux, are constituted by

Cyrenaics The Cyrenaics are one of the minor Socratic schools. The school was founded by Aristippus, a follower of Socrates. The Cyrenaics are notable mainly for their empiricist and skeptical epistemology and their sensualist hedonism. They believe that we can have certain knowledge of our immediate states of perceptual awareness, par exemple, that I am seeing white now. Toutefois, we cannot go beyond these experiences

Lucius Annaeus Seneca (c. 4 B.C.E.—65 C.E.) The ancient Roman philosopher Seneca was a Stoic who adopted and argued largely from within the framework he inherited from his Stoic predecessors. His Letters to Lucilius have long been widely read Stoic texts. Seneca’s texts have many aims: he writes to exhort readers to philosophy, to encourage them to continue study, to articulate his philosophical position, À

Epistemology Epistemology is the study of knowledge. Epistemologists concern themselves with a number of tasks, which we might sort into two categories. D'abord, we must determine the nature of knowledge; c'est, what does it mean to say that someone knows, or fails to know, quelque chose? This is a matter of understanding what knowledge is, and how to distinguish between cases in which someone knows