Environmental Ethics The field of environmental ethics concerns human beings’ ethical relationship with the natural environment. While numerous philosophers have written on this topic throughout history, environmental ethics only developed into a specific philosophical discipline in the 1970s. This emergence was no doubt due to the increasing awareness in the 1960s of the effects that technology, industry, economic expansion and population growth were having on

Ge Hong (Ko Hung, 283-343 d.C.) Ge Hong was an eclectic philosopher who dedicated his life to searching for physical immortality, which he thought was attainable through alchemy. He lived during China’s tumultuous Period of Disunity (220-589 C.E.), a time in which alien conqueror regimes ruled northern China, the cradle of Chinese civilization, while a series of weak, transplanted Chinese states occupied recently colonized southern

Arthur Schopenhauer (1788—1860) Arthur Schopenhauer has been dubbed the artist’s philosopher on account of the inspiration his aesthetics has provided to artists of all stripes. He is also known as the philosopher of pessimism, as he articulated a worldview that challenges the value of existence. His elegant and muscular prose earns him a reputation as one of the greatest German stylists. Although he never achieved

Applied Ethics Under what conditions is an abortion morally permissible? Does a citizen have a moral obligation to actively participate (perhaps by voting) in the democratic process of one’s nation (assuming one is living in a democracy)? What obligations, se presente, does one have to the global poor? Under what conditions is female genital excision morally permissible? If there are conditions under which it is

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

Teorie della spiegazione All'interno della filosofia della scienza ci sono state idee contrastanti su cosa sia una spiegazione. Storicamente, la spiegazione è stata associata alla causalità: spiegare un evento o un fenomeno significa identificarne la causa. Ma con la crescita e lo sviluppo della filosofia della scienza nel XX secolo, il concetto di spiegazione cominciò a ricevere un'analisi più rigorosa e specifica. Di particolare preoccupazione