Mary Astell (1666-1731) The English writer Mary Astell is widely known today as an early feminist pioneer, but not so well known as a philosophical thinker. Her feminist reputation rests largely on her impassioned plea to establish an all-female college in England, an idea first put forward in her Serious Proposal to the Ladies (1694). She is also remembered for her harsh but witty indictment

Giuseppe Priestley (1733-1804) Un notevole erudito dell'Illuminismo, Joseph Priestley pubblicò quasi duecento opere sulla filosofia naturale, teologia, metafisica, filosofia politica, politica, istruzione, storia e linguistica. Ricordato oggi soprattutto come uno scienziato che isolò l'ossigeno, Priestley considerava la sua vocazione quella di teologo, e trascorse gran parte della sua vita lavorando come ministro e insegnante. Ha combinato la sua teologia unitaria con un

D'Aquino: Metaphysics Metaphysics is taken by Thomas Aquinas to be the study of being qua being, questo è, a study of the most fundamental aspects of being that constitute a being and without which it could not be. Aquinas’s metaphysical thought follows a modified but general Aristotelian view. Primarily, for Aquinas, a thing cannot be unless it possesses an act of being, and the thing

Hunhu/Ubuntu in the Traditional Thought of Southern Africa The term Ubuntu/Botho/Hunhu is a Zulu/Xhosa/Ndebele/Sesotho/Shona word referring to the moral attribute of a person, who is known in the Bantu languages as Munhu (Among the Shona of Zimbabwe), Umuntu (Among the Ndebele of Zimbabwe and the Zulu/Xhosa of South Africa) and Muthu (Among the Tswana of Botswana) and Omundu (Among the Herero of Namibia) to name

Lao Sze-kwang (Lao Siguang) (1927—2012) foto per gentile concessione dell'Università Cinese di Hong Kong Le opere di Lao Sze-kwang (Lao Siguang) coprire una vasta gamma di filosofie, compreso il confucianesimo, buddismo, Daoismo, Kantismo, Hegelismo, e, soprattutto, la filosofia della cultura. Come molti altri filosofi cinesi del XX secolo, Lao fu personalmente colpito dalla rivoluzione cinese del 1949 e fece carriera al di fuori di essa

Protagoras (fl. 5th c. a.E.V.) Protagoras of Abdera was one of several fifth century Greek thinkers (including also Gorgias, Hippias, and Prodicus) collectively known as the Older Sophists, a group of traveling teachers or intellectuals who were experts in rhetoric (the science of oratory) and related subjects. Protagoras is known primarily for three claims (1) that man is the measure of all things (che è