Charles Hartshorne: Dipolar Theism From the beginning to the end of his career Charles Hartshorne maintained that the idea that “God is love” was his guiding intuition in philosophy. This “intuition” presupposes both that there is a divine reality and that that reality answers to some positive description of being a loving God. This article focuses on the latter issue, vale a dire, Hartshorne’s concept of God.

Consequentialism Consequentialism is the view that morality is all about producing the right kinds of overall consequences. Here the phrase “overall consequences” of an action means everything the action brings about, including the action itself. Per esempio, if you think that the whole point of morality is (UN) to spread happiness and relieve suffering, o (b) to create as much freedom as possible in the

Prosentential Theory of Truth Prosentential theorists claim that sentences such as “That is true” are prosentences that function analogously to their better known cousins—pronouns. Per esempio, just as we might use the pronoun ‘he’ in place of ‘James’ to transform “James went to the supermarket” into “He went to the supermarket,” so we might use the prosentence-forming operator ‘is true’ to transform “Snow is white”

Relativismo morale Il relativismo morale è la visione secondo cui i giudizi morali sono veri o falsi solo rispetto ad alcuni punti di vista particolari (per esempio, quello di una cultura o di un periodo storico) e che nessun punto di vista è privilegiato rispetto a tutti gli altri. È stato spesso associato ad altre affermazioni sulla moralità: in particolare, la tesi secondo cui culture diverse spesso esibiscono valori morali radicalmente diversi; il negarlo

Jacqueline Pascal (1625—1661) A Cistercian nun, Jacqueline Pascal made a major contribution to philosophy of education through her treatise on the methods and principles of the pedagogy used at the convent school at Port-Royal. In her educational theory, the teacher emerges as a spiritual director who encourages the moral progress of her pupils through ascetical exercises and personal interviews. The right of women to acquire