Augustine: Political and Social Philosophy St. Augustine (354-430 C.E.), originally named Aurelius Augustinus, was the Catholic bishop of Hippo in northern Africa. He was a skilled Roman-trained rhetorician, a prolific writer (who produced more than 110 works over a 30-year period), and by wide acclamation, the first Christian philosopher. Writing from a unique background and vantage point as a keen observer of society before the

S. Louis Hegelians The common name given to a group of amateur philosophers founded and led by William Torrey Harris (1835-1909) and Henry Conrad Brokmeyer (1828-1906). Harris, a New Englander born in Connecticut and educated at Yale, first became acquainted with idealism through the Transcendentalists, mainly from his attendance in 1857 at the Orphic Seer’s Conversations of Amos Bronson Alcott (1799-1888). The experience inspired Harris

Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) Elizabeth Cady Stanton fu una delle figure pubbliche più influenti nell'America del diciannovesimo secolo. È stata una delle prime teoriche femministe della nazione e sicuramente una delle sue attiviste più produttive. Era nella tradizione di Abigail Adams, che implorò suo marito John di "ricordare le donne" mentre aiutava a formare la nuova nazione americana. Insieme a Susan B. Antonio,

Constructivism in Metaethics It is difficult to provide an uncontroversial statement of constructivism in metaethics, since the terms of this doctrine are themselves the focus of philosophical debate. Tuttavia, this view is now perhaps most commonly understood as a metaphysical thesis concerning how we are to understand the nature of normative facts–that is, facts about what we ought to do. Most broadly, it is the

Willard Van Orman Quine: La distinzione analitico/sintetico Willard Van Orman Quine è stato uno dei filosofi “analitici” americani più noti del XX secolo. Ha dato contributi significativi a molte aree della filosofia, compresa la filosofia del linguaggio, logica, epistemologia, filosofia della scienza, e filosofia della mente/psicologia (comportamentismo). Tuttavia, è noto soprattutto per il suo rifiuto della distinzione analitico/sintetico. Tecnicamente, questa è la distinzione tra

Anaximenes (d. 528 B.C.E.) According to the surviving sources on his life, Anaximenes flourished in the mid 6th century B.C.E. and died about 528. He is the third philosopher of the Milesian School of philosophy, so named because like Thales and Anaximander, Anaximenes was an inhabitant of Miletus, in Ionia (ancient Greece). Theophrastus notes that Anaximenes was an associate, and possibly a student, of Anaximander’s. Anaximenes