Les nouveaux athées Les nouveaux athées sont les auteurs d'ouvrages du début du XXIe siècle promouvant l'athéisme.. Ces auteurs incluent Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, et Christopher Hitchens. L’étiquette de « nouveaux athées » attribuée à ces critiques de la religion et des croyances religieuses est née des commentaires journalistiques sur le contenu et l’impact de leurs livres.. Une observation courante est que les auteurs néo-athées présentent un niveau inhabituellement élevé de

Platon: The Academy Plato’s enormous impact on later philosophy, éducation, and culture can be traced to three interrelated aspects of his philosophical life: his written philosophical dialogues, the teaching and writings of his student Aristotle, and the educational organization he began, “the Academy.” Plato’s Academy took its name from the place where its members congregated, the Akadēmeia, an area outside of the Athens city walls

Locke: Epistemology John Locke (1632-1704), one of the founders of British Empiricism, is famous for insisting that all our ideas come from experience and for emphasizing the need for empirical evidence. He develops his empiricist epistemology in An Essay Concerning Human understanding, which greatly influenced later empiricists such as George Berkeley and David Hume. Dans cet article, Locke’s Essay is used to explain his criticism

Ancient Ethics Ethical reflection in ancient Greece and Rome starts from all of an agent’s ends or goals and tries to systematize them. Our ends are diverse. We typically want, entre autres, material comfort, santé, respect from peers and love from friends and family, successful children, healthy emotional lives, and intellectual achievement. We see all these things as good for us. Ainsi, systematizing our