Liezi (Lieh-tzu, cn. 4th cn. a.E.V.) The Liezi (Lieh-tzu), or Master Lie may be considered to be the third of the Chinese philosophical texts in the line of thought represented by the Laozi and the Zhuangzi, subsequently classified as Daojia (“the School of the Way”) or Daoist philosophy. Whether Master Lie existed as an actual person or not, the text bears his name in order

Philosophy through Film This article introduces the main perspectives concerning philosophy through film. Film is understood not so much as an object of philosophical reflection but as a medium for engaging in philosophy. Contributions to the area have flourished since the beginning of the 21st century, along with debates over the extent to which film can really be understood to be “doing” philosophy, as opposed

Cyrenaics The Cyrenaics are one of the minor Socratic schools. The school was founded by Aristippus, a follower of Socrates. The Cyrenaics are notable mainly for their empiricist and skeptical epistemology and their sensualist hedonism. They believe that we can have certain knowledge of our immediate states of perceptual awareness, Per esempio, that I am seeing white now. Tuttavia, we cannot go beyond these experiences

Giovanni Duns Scoto (1266–1308) Giovanni Duns Scoto, insieme a Bonaventura, D'Aquino, e Ockham, è uno dei quattro grandi filosofi dell'Alta Scolastica. Il suo lavoro ha una portata enciclopedica, eppure così dettagliato e ricco di sfumature che si è guadagnato l'epiteto di "Dottore sottile".,” e un pensatore niente meno che Ockham elogerebbe il suo giudizio definendolo superiore a tutti gli altri nella sua sottigliezza. In opposizione al pensiero prevalente

Wang Yangming (1472—1529) Wang Yangming, also known as Wang Shouren (Wang Shou-jen), is one of the most influential philosophers in the Confucian tradition. He is best known for his theory of the unity of knowledge and action. A capable and principled administrator and military official, he was exiled from 1507 to 1510 for his protest against political corruption. Although he studied the thought of Zhu

Michel Foucault: Political Thought The work of twentieth-century French philosopher Michel Foucault has increasingly influenced the study of politics. This influence has mainly been via concepts he developed in particular historical studies that have been taken up as analytical tools; “governmentality” and ”biopower” are the most prominent of these. Più in generale, Foucault developed a radical new conception of social power as forming strategies embodying intentions