The Meaning of Life: Contemporary Analytic Perspectives Depending on whom one asks, la domanda, “What is the meaning of life?” is either the most profound question of human existence or else nothing more than a…
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Giovanni Locke (1632-1704)
Giovanni Locke (1632-1704) John Locke fu tra i filosofi e teorici politici più famosi del XVII secolo. È spesso considerato il fondatore di una scuola di pensiero nota come Empirismo britannico, e…
Aristotele: Metafisica
Aristotele: Metaphysics When Aristotle articulated the central question of the group of writings we know as his Metaphysics, he said it was a question that would never cease to raise itself. He was right. He also regarded…
Alexandre Kojève (1902—1968)
Alexandre Kojève (1902—1968) Alexandre Kojève was responsible for the serious introduction of Hegel into 20th Century French philosophy, influencing many leading French intellectuals who attended his seminar on The Phenomenology of Spirit in Paris in…
Marie Le Jars de Gournay (1565-1645)
Marie Le Jars de Gournay (1565-1645) A close friend and editor of Montaigne, Marie Le Jars de Gournay is best known for her proto-feminist essays defending equality between the sexes. Her unusual lifestyle as a…
Etica sanitaria
Health Care Ethics Health care ethics is the field of applied ethics that is concerned with the vast array of moral decision-making situations that arise in the practice of medicine in addition to the procedures…
Umore
Umorismo Lo studio filosofico dell'umorismo si è concentrato sullo sviluppo di una definizione soddisfacente di umorismo, che fino a poco tempo fa veniva trattato grosso modo come equivalente alla risata. The main task is to develop…
Medieval Theories of Aesthetics
Medieval Theories of Aesthetics The term ‘aesthetics’ did not become prominent until the eighteenth century in Germany; Tuttavia, this fact does not prevent principles of aesthetics from being present in the Middles Ages. Developments in the…
Persistence in Time
Persistence in Time No person ever steps into the same river twice—or so goes the Heraclitean maxim. Obscure as it is, the maxim is often taken to express two ideas. The first is that everything…
Prescienza e libero arbitrio
Prescienza e libero arbitrio Supponiamo che fosse noto, da qualcun altro, cosa sceglierai di fare domani. Wouldn’t that entail that tomorrow you must do what it was known in advance that…