Platone: Meno Plato’s Meno introduces aspects of Socratic ethics and Platonic epistemology in a fictional dialogue that is set among important political events and cultural concerns in the last years of Socrates’ life. It begins as an abrupt, prepackaged debater’s challenge from Meno about whether virtue can be taught, and quickly becomes an open and inconclusive search for the essence of this elusive “virtue,” or

L'assiologia del teismo La domanda esistenziale su Dio chiede se Dio esiste, ma l'assiologia del teismo affronta la questione di quale impatto sul valore, se presente, L’esistenza di Dio sì (o lo farebbe) avere sul nostro mondo e sui suoi abitanti. Ci sono due risposte importanti alla domanda assiologica su Dio. Il pro-teismo è la visione che sostiene l’esistenza di Dio (o lo farebbe) aggiungere valore al nostro mondo. Antiteismo,

Novalis (Georg Philipp Friedrich von Hardenberg) (1772-1801) “Novalis” was the pseudonym of Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg, an early German Romantic philosopher, poeta, and novelist. Born into a Pietistic family of minor, slightly cash-strapped, Saxon nobility in 1772, he died of tuberculosis in 1801 at the age of 28. Novalis is sometimes seen as the paradigmatic figure of German Romanticism: His early death, IL

Substance The term “substance” has two main uses in philosophy. Both originate in what is arguably the most influential work of philosophy ever written, Aristotle’s Categories. In its first sense, “substance” refers to those things that are object-like, rather that property-like. Per esempio, an elephant is a substance in this sense, whereas the height or colour of the elephant is not. In its second sense,

Niccolò Machiavelli (1469—1527) Machiavelli was a 16th century Florentine philosopher known primarily for his political ideas. His two most famous philosophical books, The Prince and the Discourses on Livy, were published after his death. His philosophical legacy remains enigmatic, but that result should not be surprising for a thinker who understood the necessity to work sometimes from the shadows. There is still no settled scholarly