Egalitarianism Are all persons of equal moral worth? Is variation in income and wealth just? Does it matter that the allocation of income and wealth is shaped by undeserved luck? No one deserves the family into which they are born, their innate abilities, or their starting place in society, yet these have a dramatic impact on life outcomes. Keeping in mind the extreme inequality in

Realismo morale Il realista morale sostiene che esistono fatti morali, quindi il realismo morale è una tesi in ontologia, lo studio di ciò che è. La categoria ontologica “fatti morali” comprende sia il giudizio morale descrittivo che sia presumibilmente vero di un individuo, ad esempio, “Sam è moralmente buono,” e il giudizio morale descrittivo che è presumibilmente vero per tutti gli individui come, “Mentire per motivi personali

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

Fictionalism in the Philosophy of Mathematics The distinctive character of fictionalism about any discourse is (UN) recognition of some valuable purpose to that discourse, e (b) the claim that that purpose can be served even if sentences uttered in the context of that discourse are not literally true. Regarding (b), if the discourse in question involves mathematics, either pure or applied, the core of the

D'Aquino: Metaphysics Metaphysics is taken by Thomas Aquinas to be the study of being qua being, questo è, a study of the most fundamental aspects of being that constitute a being and without which it could not be. Aquinas’s metaphysical thought follows a modified but general Aristotelian view. Primarily, for Aquinas, a thing cannot be unless it possesses an act of being, and the thing

Zhang Zai (Chang Tsai, 1020—1077) Zhang Zai fu uno dei pionieri del movimento filosofico della dinastia Song chiamato “Studio della Via,"spesso noto come neo-confucianesimo. Una delle caratteristiche più distintive di molti di questi nuovi modi di pensiero formulati all’epoca era un crescente interesse per la metafisica., solitamente influenzato dal Classico dei Mutamenti (Yijing). I contributi più significativi di Zhang alla filosofia cinese