Maurizio Merleau-Ponty (1908-1961) Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s work is commonly associated with the philosophical movement called existentialism and its intention to begin with an analysis of the concrete experiences, percezioni, and difficulties, of human existence. Tuttavia, he never propounded quite the same extreme accounts of radical freedom, being-towards-death, anguished responsibility, and conflicting relations with others, for which existentialism became both famous and notorious in the 1940s and

Nagarjuna (c. 150-c. 250) Spesso definito "il secondo Buddha" dal Mahayana tibetano e dell'Asia orientale (Ottimo veicolo) tradizioni del Buddismo, Nagarjuna offrì aspre critiche alla filosofia sostanzialista braminica e buddista, teoria della conoscenza, e approcci alla pratica. La filosofia di Nagarjuna rappresenta una sorta di spartiacque non solo nella storia della filosofia indiana ma nella storia della filosofia nel suo insieme., come esso

Filosofia politica: Methodology Political philosophy begins with the question: what ought to be a person’s relationship to society? The subject seeks the application of ethical concepts to the social sphere and thus deals with the variety of forms of government and social existence that people could live in – and in so doing, it also provides a standard by which to analyze and judge existing

Ethics and Care-Worker Migration Cited as one of the most pressing issues of our times, health care worker migration is now occurring at unprecedented rates. In the post-colonial era, as many developing countries began to develop and expand their health services and to educate their citizens to staff them, more educated workers left for wealthier countries, often those of the colonists or ones that shared

Marsilio Ficino (1433—1499) Marsilio Ficino was a Florentine philosopher, translator, and commentator, largely responsible for the revival of Plato and Platonism in the Renaissance. He has been widely recognized by historians of philosophy for his defense of the immortality of the soul, as well as for his translations of Plato, Plotino, and the Hermetic corpus from Greek to Latin. Ficino is considered the most important

Filosofia della Medicina Mentre filosofia e medicina, a cominciare dagli antichi greci, goduto di una lunga storia di interazioni reciprocamente vantaggiose, la professionalizzazione della “filosofia della medicina” è un evento del XIX secolo. Uno dei primi libri accademici sulla filosofia della medicina in termini moderni è stato il Saggio sulla filosofia della scienza medica di Elisha Bartlett., pubblicato nel 1844. Tra la metà e la fine del XX secolo,