Emmanuel Kant: Aesthetics Immanuel Kant is an 18th century German philosopher whose work initated dramatic changes in the fields of epistemology, metafisica, etica, estetica, e teleologia. Like many Enlightenment thinkers, he holds our mental faculty of reason in high esteem; he believes that it is our reason that invests the world we experience with structure. In his works on aesthetics and teleology, he argues that

Metaethics Metaethics is a branch of analytic philosophy that explores the status, foundations, and scope of moral values, proprietà, and words. Whereas the fields of applied ethics and normative theory focus on what is moral, metaethics focuses on what morality itself is. Just as two people may disagree about the ethics of, Per esempio, physician-assisted suicide, while nonetheless agreeing at the more abstract level of

Argomentazioni progettuali a favore dell'esistenza di Dio Le argomentazioni progettuali sono argomentazioni empiriche a favore dell'esistenza di Dio. Questi argomenti in genere, anche se non sempre, procedere tentando di identificare varie caratteristiche empiriche del mondo che costituiscono la prova di un disegno intelligente e deducendo l’esistenza di Dio come la migliore spiegazione per queste caratteristiche. Poiché i concetti di design e scopo sono strettamente correlati, anche gli argomenti relativi al design

Political Philosophy of Alasdair MacIntyre This article focuses on Alasdair MacIntyre’s contribution to political philosophy since 1981, although MacIntyre has also written influential works on theology, Marxism, rationality, metafisica, etica, and the history of philosophy. He has made a personal intellectual journey from Marxism to Catholicism and from Aristotle to Aquinas, and he is one of the preeminent Thomist political philosophers. The most consistent and

Anaxarchus (c. 380—c. 320 B.C.E.) As a follower of Democritus, Anaxarchus developed the skeptical tendencies within Democritus’ thought. Although our information on him is extremely sketchy, he is a pivotal figure connecting the atomism of Democritus to the skepticism of Pyrrho, if ancient philosophical genealogies can be trusted. He allegedly abolished the criterion of truth by likening our experiences to those of dreamers and madmen.