Nikolai Fedorovich Fedorov (1829-1903) I pensieri di Fedorov sono stati variamente descritti come audaci, culminante, curioso, facilmente frainteso, estremo, nebuloso, idealista, ingenuo, di valore, scientifico-magical, speciale, inaspettato, unico, e utopico. Molti dei pochi filosofi che hanno familiarità con Fedorov ammettono la sua originalità, la sua indipendenza, la sua preoccupazione umana, forse anche la sua logica, fino a un certo punto. Ma il suo progetto di resurrezione è visto con comprensibile scetticismo e spesso respinto

Act and Rule Utilitarianism Utilitarianism is one of the best known and most influential moral theories. Like other forms of consequentialism, its core idea is that whether actions are morally right or wrong depends on their effects. Più specificamente, the only effects of actions that are relevant are the good and bad results that they produce. A key point in this article concerns the distinction

Martin Heidegger (1889—1976) Martin Heidegger is widely acknowledged to be one of the most original and important philosophers of the 20th century, while remaining one of the most controversial. His thinking has contributed to such diverse fields as phenomenology (Merleau-Ponty), esistenzialismo (Sartre, Ortega y Gasset), hermeneutics (Gadamer, Ricoeur), political theory (Arendt, Marcuse, Habermas), psychology (Boss, Binswanger, Rollo May), and theology (Bultmann, Rahner, Tillich). His critique

Editors General Editors James Fieser, University of Tennessee at Martin, U. S. UN. Bradley Dowden, Università statale della California, Sacramento, U. S. UN. Area Editors The following is list of the IEP area editors. See the desired articles by area page for listings of the most wanted articles for each area. Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art Michael R. Spicher, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, STATI UNITI D'AMERICA.

Plotinus: Virtue Ethics This article focuses on the virtue ethics of Plotinus (204—270 C.E.) and its implications for later accounts of virtue ethics, particularly in Porphyry and Iamblichus. Plotinus’ ethical theory is discussed in relation to the aim of the virtuous person to become godlike, the role of disposition in the soul’s intellectualization, the four cardinal virtues, well-being, human freedom, and self-determination. Plotinus’ virtue ethics