Mulino John Stuart (1806—1873) Mulino John Stuart (1806-1873) profoundly influenced the shape of nineteenth century British thought and political discourse. His substantial corpus of works includes texts in logic, epistemologia, economics, social and political philosophy, etica, metafisica, religione, and current affairs. Among his most well-known and significant are A System of Logic, Principles of Political Economy, Sulla Libertà, Utilitarismo, The Subjection of Women, Three Essays

Non-Cognitivism in Ethics A non-cognitivist theory of ethics implies that ethical sentences are neither true nor false, questo è, they lack truth-values. What this means will be investigated by giving a brief logical-linguistic analysis explaining the different illocutionary senses of normative sentences. The analysis will make sense of how normative sentences play their proper role even though they lack truth values, a fact which is

Aztec Philosophy Conquest-era Aztecs conceived philosophy in essentially pragmatic terms. The raison d’etre of philosophical inquiry was to provide humans with practicable answers to what Aztecs identified as the defining question of human existence: How can we maintain our balance while walking upon the slippery earth? Aztec philosophers addressed this question against an assumed metaphysics which held that the cosmos and its human inhabitants are

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Consequentialism Consequentialism is the view that morality is all about producing the right kinds of overall consequences. Here the phrase “overall consequences” of an action means everything the action brings about, including the action itself. Per esempio, if you think that the whole point of morality is (UN) to spread happiness and relieve suffering, o (b) to create as much freedom as possible in the